The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response Woodrow Wilson Sites of Memory

Sites of Memory

the memoirist and critic Samuel Hynes tells these young men's saga as the story of a generation

and how they lived and fought

for forensic investigation of the war dead is now so highly developed that individuals can be identified and their fate discovered

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The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response Woodrow Wilson Sites of MemoryDescription by Peter Balakian Paperback In this national bestseller, the critically acclaimed author Peter Balakian brings us a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Using rarely seen archival documents and remarkable first person accounts, Balakian presents the chilling history of how the Turkish government implemented the first modern genocide behind