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Children of Armenia: A Forgotten Genocide and the Century-long Struggle for Justice (Hardcover)
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Description
The first book to chronicle the aftermath of the twentieth century’s first genocide, this groundbreaking work recounts the Armenians’ struggle for justice in the face of fifty years of silence and denial.
• First comprehensive account: From 1915 to 1923, the Ottoman Turks drove two million Armenians from their ancestral homeland, slaughtering 1.5 million of them in the process. After an immediate groundswell of support for the “starving Armenians” led by President Woodrow Wilson, the atrocities were wiped from public consciousness. Why has Turkey never been held accountable? This, the first account of the post-Genocide era, explains how and why the event disappeared from the world’s memory and reveals for the first time the full story of the events that conspired to conceal the truth.
• Powerful narrative: Children of Armenia blends characterdriven narrative with historical analysis, tracking three central figures—a terrorist seeking revenge, a lawyer seeking reparations, and a lobbyist seeking recognition—to deliver a powerful true story in the tradition of Iris Chang, Peter Balakian, Samantha Power, and Philip Gourevitch.
• Timely: From rwanda to Darfur to Bosnia, there has been much discussion of twentieth-century genocides, the proper u.S. response, and the tragic aftermaths. Bobelian’s pioneering account of the post-Genocide generation’s struggle for justice demonstrates just how critical the establishment of truth is for peaceful reconciliation.
Praise for Children of Armenia: A Forgotten Genocide and the Century-long Struggle for Justice…
“Michael Bobelian has done a real service both in re-evoking the genocide and chronicling this long, sorry history of denial.” —Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains and King Leopold’s Ghost, and National Book Award Finalist
“A powerfully moving account.” —Washington Times
"A powerful and provocative work." —Dr. Michael Berenbaum, former project director, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
“I heartily recommend this book.” —U.S. Ambassador John M. Evans
"This powerful and gripping account of a people's century-long struggle for justice is long overdue." —George Deukmejian, 35th Governor of California
“Michael Bobelian has made a significant contribution…. with an engaging literary style and a vivid vocabulary… [T]he book is captivating.” —Dr. Richard G. Hovannisian, Professor of History at UCLA
“This fall brought Michael Bobelian’s resourcefully reported Children of Armenia.” —Carlin Romano, Pulitzer Prize Finalist (from The Chronicle of Higher Education)
“The scholarship is impeccable, the style accessible, the objectivity unimpeachable…. The result is a detached, cool, and thorough account that reads at times like a thriller.” —Ararat Magazine
"Important...revelation of an egregious wrong still not acknowledged, let alone righted." —Kirkus Reviews
“Bobelian…adds a first-rate analytical narrative of the aftermath of the genocide. No comparable text exists. Indispensable for all those interested in Armenia and genocide broadly.” —Dr. Khachig TÖlÖlyan, Professor of English Literature at Wesleyan University
