Foreword
Introduction from Editor and Translator
From the
Author
Chap. I Beginnings
Chap. 2 Forbidden Fruit
Chap. 3 The Price of Freedom
Chap. 4 A Great Gift
Chap. 5 Days of Fear and Trembling
Chap. 6 A Wanderer in My Homeland
Chap. 7 The Past Revisited
Chap. 8 A Time for Tears
Chap. 9 Days of Guarded Freedom
Chap. 10 Toward the Gallows
Chap. 11 Survival in the Military
Chap. 12 Further Wanderings
Chap. 13 A Change of Heart
Chap. 14 Path to Freedom
Chap. 15 Seeds Flung to the Winds
Chap. 16 Return to the Land of Hope
Chap. 17 Hope Realized
Chap. 18 Legacy of Reflections, Ideals, and Admonitions
Index
ILLUSTRATIONS
Sample page from original Armenian
manuscript
The author in Racine, Wisconsin (1913)
A panoramic view of Khoulakyough (1909)
Kharpert-Khoulakyough’s cemetery (1909)
Map of Turkish Armenia circa. 1920
Garougian clan (Khoulakyough, 1913)
Varteres in the Legion d’Orient (probably Cyprus, 1918)
Khoulakyough villagers, Urfa, (1920)
Sletch of Kerasun to Urfa, Malatia to Erzeroum
Sketch of Gesaria to Kharpert area and Erzinjan to Dikranagerd
Sketch map of Garin (Erzeroum) to Kars and Olti to Bitlis
French travel permit given to Varteres
Yester Torosian and Sarkis Der Simonian (Racine, circa 1921)
Varteres and Manan with Mariam and Mikael (Racine, 1928)