CHILDREN OF ARMENIA: A Forgotten Genocide and the Century-Long Struggle for Justice
Michael Bobelian
Simon & Schuster
ISBN 978 1 4165 5725 8
308 pages
$26
Reviewed by Justin Moyer
Like Native Americans, European Jews and Rwandan Tutsis, Turkish Armenians seem to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. "Children of Armenia," Michael Bobelian's first book, describes the Ottoman Empire's 1915 mass extermination of this Christian minority without getting bogged down in "G-word" histrionics. "The purpose of this book is neither to prove the existence nor affirm the veracity of the Genocide," Bobelian writes: The Armenian holocaust is a historical fact.
"Children of Armenia" focuses on the Turkish nationalism, world war weariness, ...
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