"Starving Armenians" : America and the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1930 and after
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2003. First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 199 pages; Description: xiv, 199 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Armenian massacres, 1915-1923 --Foreign public opinion, American.Genocide --Turkey --Foreign public opinion, American. Summary: Between 1915 and 1925 as many as 1.5 million Armenians, a minority in the Ottoman Empire, died in Ottoman Turkey, victims of execution, starvation, and death marches to the Syrian Desert. Peterson explores the American response to these atrocities, from initial reports to President Wilson until Armenia's eventual absorption into the Soviet Union. Item #171087
ISBN: 0813922674
Price: €14.95