Author: British MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description
Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years ...
Author: British MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description
Alphabetical Finding List
Author: Princeton University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin
Author: Los Angeles Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the British Museum Library
Author: Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British LibraryThe Lions of Marash
Author: Stanley E. KerrPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 143840882X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Lions of Marash is an eye-witness account by an American Near East Relief official of the tragic events which resulted in the annihilation of the Armenian population of Marash, in Central Anatolia, following World War I. On 10 February 1920, the French garrison at Marash withdrew abruptly under cover of darkness, thus abandoning more than twenty thousand Armenians to the Turkish Nationalist forces. The French pullout caused considerable embarrassment in Paris and roused a storm of angry protest in England and the United States, but for the Armenians of Marash, and all of Cilicia, it led to renewed massacre and to final exodus. American philanthropy administered through Near East Relief, successor organization to the American Committee for Relief in the Near East, saved thousands of starving Armenian women and children from Turkish marauders. Workshops and other rehabilitative establishments built by ACRNE and NER slightly mitigated the bitter disappointments arising from the American refusal to ensure the Armenian people a collective future by accepting a protective mandate over the independent Armenian state that had been sanctioned by the Paris Peace Conference. In Cilicia NER worked among the repatriates for four years and, after the total Armenian exodus in 1922, attempted to assist the refugee throngs to resettle in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and other lands of the Middle East. Among the scores of men and women who responded to the ACRNE call for volunteers in 1919 was Stanley E. Kerr, then an officer in the United States Army Sanitary Corps. First serving at Aleppo in a multiplicity of positions, including clinical biochemist, and photographer, Kerr transferred in the autumn of 1919 to Marash, where he took charge of American relief operations after the French withdrawal. In view of the fact that many Turks regarded the Americans as collaborators with the French and Armenians, it was at no small risk that Kerr and his courageous colleagues stayed at their posts to help the thousands of Armenians whom the French had deserted. Indeed, the uncertainties of a hostage-like existence did not end until Kerr departed for Beirut with the last caravan of Armenian orphans in 1922. Now, fifty years after leaving Cilicia, Dr. Kerr presents his account of the happenings of Marash. Although his personal experiences form the basis for narrative, the author has also utilized the studies and memoirs of French officers, and priests, Turkish military historians, and Armenian survivors, particularly prominent Protestant and Catholic spokesmen.
Catalogue of War Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
League of Nations Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : International relations
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author: Great Catastrophe
Author: Thomas De WaalPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199350698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Drawing on archival sources, reportage and moving personal stories, de Waal tells the full story of Armenian-Turkish relations since the Genocide in all its extraordinary twists and turns. He looks behind the propaganda to examine the realities of a terrible historical crime and the divisive "politics of genocide" it produced.