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Yervant Odian,
Accursed Years: My Exile and Return from Der Zor, 1914-1919

A fascinating account about the Armenian Genocide written by a well known Armenian writer. Odian was exiled to Der Zor in 1915 and survived to tell his story. In many ways a "silenced source", Odian's account sheds light on many aspects of the Armenian Genocide that have not been integrated into the secondary literature.

Accursed Years was originally serialised in Jamanag (Constantinople), 1919. This is the first English translation of this work.
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  Joan George with a foreword by Christopher J. Walker,
Merchants to Magnates, Intrigue and Survival: Armenians in London, 1900-2000

This book is the first serious attempt to write a popular history of the Armenian community of London. It is both creditable and readable, and the author sheds much light on many quirky and serious aspects of the London Armenian community. Written in a celebratory style, the author exalts community activists and seems optimistic about the future, a view not shared by all. This work follows Joan George's Merchants in Exile: The Armenians of Manchester, England, 1835–1935 (Gomidas Institute, 2002).
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Paul Leverkuehn,
A German Officer during the Armenian Genocide: A Biography of Max von Scheubner-Richter, translated by Alasdair Lean with a preface by Jorge Vartparonian and a historical introduction by
Hilmar Kaiser

Max von Scheubner Richter was the German vice-consul in Erzerum in Ottoman Turkey during the destruction of Armenians in 1915 and a co-founder of the National Socialist party in Germany, 1919. He was shot dead during the Munich putsch in 1923. This book focuses on his involvement with the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
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Victoria Rowe,
A History of Armenian Women’s Writing, 1880–1922


This classic, path-breaking volume restores the pioneering generation of 19th and 20th century Armenian women writers to their rightful place in the histories of modern Armenian and Ottoman literatures. The author reconstructs the biographies and bibliographies and analyzes the texts of six Armenian women writers and contextualizes their works in the intellectual and cultural milieus of the late Ottoman and Russian Empires.
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Kemal Yalçın,
You Rejoice My Heart

A moving account of the author's discovery, in Istanbul and the provinces, of the pain, fear and suffering inflicted on Armenians in modern Turkey. In many ways, this is the first social history of Armenians in Turkey today. Perhaps not surprisingly, the first Turkish edition of this work was suppressed in Turkey.

Authorised translation from the Turkish original. Specially published for the Tekeyan Cultural Association by the Gomidas Institute.
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Ghazaros Aghayan (Agop Hacikyan, transl. and intro., Talleen Hacikyan, illust.),
Tork Angegh

This book tells the story of a legendary Armenian folk hero who realizes the age-old dream of the Armenian people: to live in peace and harmony with the other inhabitants of the Earth. In this poetic translation there is something that will delight everyone: children (who will revel in its story and descriptions), art lovers (who will glory in its illustrations), students of literature and folklore, and lovers of peace everywhere..
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"Excellent work"
Journal of International Map Collectors Society

Rouben Galichian,
Countries South of the Caucasus in Medieval Maps: Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan

An original cartographic study dedicated to the geography of countries located south of the Caucasian range of mountains, as depicted on medieval maps. A masterful work with full colour reproductions from leading libraries of the world.
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Inga Nalbandian (Victoria Rowe transl. and intro.),
Your Brother's Blood Cries Out

This work is one of the most powerful popular accounts about the Armenian Genocide published in continental Europe during World War I. It was written by Inga Nalbandian, a Danish woman, whose Armenian husband was one of the victims of the 1915 genocide.
 

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“this publication will help educate America's leaders and the general public about the Armenian Genocide.” —US Congressmen Frank Pallone, Jr. and Joseph Knollenberg (March 2004)

United States Official Records on the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1917, comp., ed. and intro. by Ara Sarafian. A systematic collection of core reports on the Armenian Genocide from Ottoman Turkey forwarded to the United States State Department by US officials and others. These records provided the backbone of western understanding of the Genocide while the crime was still in progress in 1915. 
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Abram I. Elkus, 
The Memoirs of Abram I. Elkus: Lawyer, Ambassador, Statesman with a commentary by
Hilmar Kaiser.  Autobiography of a successful New York lawyer and judge, later to become the last US ambassador to Ottoman Turkey in 1916-1917.

Today Elkus is best remembered for saving thousands of Armenian lives as he continued the work of his predecessor in Constantinople, Ambassador Morgenthau. After WWI he was appointed a member of the League of Nations Commission to resolve the Aaland Islands dispute.
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Henry Morgenthau, United States Diplomacy on the Bosphorus: The Diaries of Ambassador Morgenthau, 1913-1916 
comp., ed. and intro. by Ara Sarafian.

These diaries provide the background to United States diplomacy in the Near East, including Morgenthau's protection of Armenians and Zionists in 1915. These diaries also provide us an invaluable insight into the Armenian Genocide as it unfolded, as well as Morgenthau's account of that genocide in his later memoirs Ambassador Morgenthau's Story.
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"...a valuable source of firsthand information composed in real time ...they offer a clear picture of what the U.S. government knew."
Haaretz
 

a valuable primary source"Robert Krikorian (George Washington University) 

Varteres Mikael Garougian, Destiny of the Dzidzernag: Destiny of the Dzidzernag: Autobiography of Varteres Mikael Garougian, Mariam V. (Garougian) Sahakian (transl., ed. and intro.). A first person account of an Armenian patriot who joins the French Legion Armenienne, returns to his native village of Khaoulakyough (Kharpert plain), seeking surviving members of his family. By 1919 he is captured by Turkish nationalists, drafted into the Kemalist forces, but eventually escapes and settles in Racine, Wisconsin.
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Blue BookSecond Edition James Bryce and Arnold Toynbee, The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1915–1916: Documents Presented to Viscount Grey of Fallodon by Viscount Bryce [Uncensored Edition], edited and with an introduction by Ara Sarafian.
"This work emerges from Ara Sarafian’s examination as documentation of a high order."
Times Literary Supplement

"Meticulous testimony and eye-witness accounts of Turkish mass-slaughter, organised rape and ethnic cleansing."
The Independent (London)

“A very fundamental study.”
Richard G. Hovannisian
(20 February 2004)

KirakossianArman J. Kirakossian, British Diplomacy and the Armenian Question, from the 1830s to 1914. Traces the development of British foreign policy regarding the Ottoman Empire, its Armenian population, and other ethnic elements. This work is the most comprehensive account of British policy towards Armenians prior to WWI. The author is a historian by training and was the former ambassador of Armenia to Washington.
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“Like no other survivor account. . . . An important document, an engaging chronicle and a painful reminder of the human costs of war, mass killing and lost homelands.” —The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review (10 January 2004)

Vahram Dadrian, To the Desert: Pages from My Diary, trans. Agop Hacikyan; ed. and intro. Ara Sarafian. The diary of a child in the Armenian Genocide. An unusual narrative, it descibes the fate of thousands of Armenians who were sent not to Der Zor in 1915, but to the wastelands south of Aleppo, as far as Maan and Es Salt in Jordan. More information....


"A compelling, first-hand account of a crucial period in the formation of modern Armenia." —Atom Egoyan

Leonidas T. Chrysanthopoulos, Caucasus Chronicles: Nation-Building and Diplomacy in Armenia, 1993–1994. A European ambassador recounts his adventures in Armenia and describes European Union policy making and his dealings with senior government officials and fellow diplomats. More information....

"The book is gripping. It reads like a travel book, yet it is the testimony of the first Greek ambassador to newly independent Armenia. The work may come to be seen as one of the most valuable first-hand sources for historians of the period for its frank, and at the same time oddly diplomatic, insight into decision-making both in Athens and Yerevan." —Transitions Online [For the full review, click here.


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A major contribution to the study of Armenian literature by one of the foremost authorities in the field:

nichanian1_60.jpg (3355 bytes)Marc Nichanian, Writers of Disaster: Armenian Literature in the Twentieth Century,vol. 1 The National Revolution. Essays on four significant Armenian authors of the twentieth century: Yeghishé Charents, Gurgen Mahari, Zabel Esayan, and Vahan Totovents. Features new translations of the work of these authors.

eskijian-60.jpg (7901 bytes)Hilmar Kaiser, in collaboration with Luther and Nancy Eskijian, At the Crossroads of Der Zor: Death, Survival and Humanitarian Resistance in Aleppo, 1915–1917. A rare study of Armenian humanitarian efforts during the Armenian Genocide.

george_60.jpg (6717 bytes)Joan George, Merchants in Exile: The Armenians of Manchester, England, 1835–1935. The history of a prosperous community that influenced British policy toward Ottoman Turkey.

Archeology of MadnessSecond Edition. Rita Soulahian Kuyumjian, Archeology of Madness: Komitas, Portrait of an Armenian Icon. A psychiatrist looks into the psyche of the great compiler and arranger of Armenian folk music.
"A very moving manuscript." --Vartan Gregorian

Shepard of AintabAlice Shepard Riggs, Shepard of Aintab, with a new foreword by Constance Shepard Jolly. The life of a popular American medical missionary who spent most of his adult life working in Aintab, in central Turkey.

The FoolRaffi, The Fool, translated by Donald Abcarian. First published in 1881, this historical novel has served as an "I have a dream" speech for generations of Armenians.  For new edition see Taderon Press

Great Need over the Water Great Need over the Water: The Letters of Theresa Huntington Ziegler, Missionary to Turkey, 1898–1905, edited and with an introduction by Stina Katchadourian. Life in Harpoot (Kharpert) one hundred years ago.
A Los Angeles Times bestseller!

"Like One Family"Arpena S. Mesrobian, "Like One Family": The Armenians of Syracuse. A microcosm of the history of Armenians in America over the past one hundred years.

Imperialism, Racism, and Development TheoriesHilmar Kaiser, Imperialism, Racism, and Development Theories: The Construction of a Dominant Paradigm on Ottoman Armenians. An inquiry into the origins of stereotypes about Ottoman Armenians in current history-writing.

Memoirs of Sarkis NarzakianSarkis Narzakian, Memoirs of Sarkis Narzakian. The story of an Armenian revolutionary and American labor activist from Chemishgazag in Ottoman Turkey.

Maps from the Gomidas Institute

Anatolia and Armenia, circa 1914
Anatolia and Armenia, circa 1914

Zadig Khanzadian's 1920 Classic
Zadig Khanzadian's 1920 classic portrayal of deportation routes and locations where massacres took place in 1915–17.

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A VALUABLE NEW SERIES

STERNDALE CLASSICS

Harry Sturmer, Two War Years in Constantinople: Sketches of German and Young Turkish Ethnics and Politics (originally translated and printed in 1917) revised and complete edition with annotations and an introduction by Hilmar Kaiser.

Clarence Ussher, An American Physician in Turkey (first published 1917). This memoir includes a detailed account of the siege of Van in 1915. It is the book featured in Atom Egoyan's motion picture, Ararat.

Grace Knapp, The Tragedy of Bitlis (first published 1919). A rare account of the Armenian Genocide in Bitlis.

George Horton, The Blight of Asia (originally printed in 1926). An account of the burning of Smyrna and the forced exodus of its Greek and Armenian inhabitants. The author was the U.S. consul general there.

Rafael de Nogales, Four Years Beneath the Crescent (originally printed in 1926). The memoir of a Venezuelan mercenary who, in May 1915, commanded Ottoman artillery batteries bombarding Armenians in the besieged city of Van.

Duke of Argyll, Our Responsibilities for Turkey: Facts and Memories of Forty Years (originally printed in 1896) An authoritative account examining British Policy and the Armenian Question.

Henry Morgenthau, Ambassador Morgenthau's Story (originally printed in 1918). The United States envoy to the Ottoman Empire in 1915–17 reports key conversations with Young Turk officials and fellow diplomats.

Robert Curzon, Armenia: A Year in Erzeroom (originally printed in 1856)

sarafian-avebury1_60.jpg (4301 bytes)British Parliamentary Debates on the Armenian Genocide 1915–1918, ed. Ara Sarafian, with a foreword by Eric Avebury

Reproduces British Parliamentary discussions of the persecution of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey during WWI. Identifies intellectual trajectory of the official British position, leading to the 1916 Parliamentary Blue Book on the treatment of Armenians.

Armenian Genocide Documentation Series
General Editor: Ara Sarafian

Days of Tragedy in ArmeniaHenry H. Riggs, Days of Tragedy in Armenia:Personal Experiences in Harpoot, 1915–1917. The story of Harpoot (Kharpert) during the First World War as told by an American missionary.

"Turkish Atrocities"James L. Barton, compiler, "Turkish Atrocities": Statements of American Missionaries on the Destruction of Christian Communities in Ottoman Turkey, 1915–1917. Twenty-one sworn statements from various parts of the empire.

Marsovan 1915Bertha B. Morley, Marsovan 1915: The Diaries of Bertha Morley. A music teacher from Ohio witnesses the destruction of Armenians in Marsovan.

The German, the Turk and the Devil Made a Triple AllianceTacy Atkinson, "The German, the Turk and the Devil Made a Triple Alliance": Harpoot Diaires, 1908–1917. A missionary from Salem, Nebraska, witnesses the destruction of Armenians in Harpoot (Kharpert).

Diaries of a Danish MissionaryMaria Jacobsen, Diaries of a Danish Missionary: Harpoot, 1907–1919. Unlike American witnesses, who had to leave the Ottoman Empire when the United States entered World War I, Maria Jacobsen carries on her narrative until the end of the war.

wolfskeel1_60.jpg (2161 bytes)Eberhard Count Wolffskeel Von Reichenberg, Zeitoun, Mousa Dagh, Ourfa: Letters on the Armenian Genocide, ed. and intro. Hilmar Kaiser

parmelee1_60.jpg (5812 bytes)Ruth Parmelee, Pioneer in the Euphrates Valley

 

See also Ara Sarafian's article based on his work in Ottoman archives.

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