Author : Merrill D. Peterson
Release : 2004
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 676/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis "Starving Armenians" by : Merrill D. Peterson
Download or read book "Starving Armenians" written by Merrill D. Peterson. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.