armenian massacres, 1915-1923

Ninety-two-year-old Emmett Conn, suffering from a brain tumor, starts to recall suppressed memories of his participation in the Armenian genocide during World War I, and sets out to find a woman named Araxie who was among the refugees, with the hope she will forgive him.

Aram Davidian, an orphaned Armenian refugee, is placed with other orphan boys on a farm in Georgetown, Ontario, where even though he appreciates the generosity of his new family, he leads a revolt against the changing of their names.

Drawing upon Ottoman sources including parliamentary minutes, letters, military and court records, and eyewitness accounts, the author examines the Armenian genocide that took place during World War I; and maintains that the Turkish military and ruling political parties as well as the Ottomans were responsibile.

Examines how the Ottoman Turkish state attempted to deal with its Armenian nationality group through genocide and terror.

Nineteen-year-old Asya has led a sheltered life with her mother and three aunts in Istanbul, until she meets Armanoush, her brother's stepdaughter, who flies to Istanbul to reconnect with her past and introduces Asya to a new world of possibilities and dangers.

The author describes his life as the child of Armenian immigrants in America and discusses his family's struggles, and the struggles of other Armenians, during 1915 when the Ottoman Turkish government put over one million Armenians to death.

Discusses the Turkish government's, and the international community's, reluctance to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide that began in 1915, and chronicles the history of the denial of the massacres and battles between Turkey's lobbyists and Armenian-American activists over congressional genocide resolutions.

The author describes his life as the child of Armenian immigrants in America and discusses his family's struggles, and the struggles of other Armenians, during 1915 when the Ottoman Turkish government put over one million Armenians to death.

Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Syria during World War I to deliver food and aid to war refugees on behalf of the Boston-based Friends of Armenia. There she falls for Armen, a young Armenian engineer who has joined the British Army in Egypt. Years later in present-day New York, novelist Laura Petrosian digs into her Armenian heritage and finds love, loss, and long-buried secrets.

From 1915 to 1923, the Ottoman Empire drove the Armenians from their ancestral homeland and killed 1.5 million of them. President Woodrow Wilson led a movement to help the Armenians but the genocide was lost in the focus on World War I and the flu pandemic and the Turks were never held accountable for their atrocities against the Armenians.