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'This is a long awaited book on the Armenian Legion. The author has done a wonderful job by giving the voice to the main actors of this story, the Legionnaires themselves, who through extracts from their memoirs make this book more vivid, concrete and comprehensible. The richness of the photographs of the Legionnaires published in this book is also a very important contribution towards successfully reconstructing this crucial period of Armenian history.' - Vahe Tachjian, Project director and chief editor of Houshamadyan Project and lecturer at the Peter Pazmany Catholic University in Budapest, The Armenian Legionnaires presents to an English language audience an important but little-known aspect of Middle Eastern History in the First World War era. The Armenian legion was formed while the Ottoman empire's genocide of its Armenian population was still ongoing, and the tale of its deployment, actions, and dissolution brings together the later passages of the Great War in the Middle East, the aftermath of genocide, Armenian hopes for the postwar future, resurgent Turkish nationalism and cynical great power politics. - Donald Bloxham, Richard Pares Professor of European History, University of Edinburgh

In effect a portable exhibition - most welcomed no doubt by the diaspora but also of great value to anyone interested in Armenian history or of the aftermath of the First World War. * Chartist *

'This is a long awaited book on the Armenian Legion. The author has done a wonderful job by giving the voice to the main actors of this story, the Legionnaires themselves, who through extracts from their memoirs make this book more vivid, concrete and comprehensible. The richness of the photographs of the Legionnaires published in this book is also a very important contribution towards successfully reconstructing this crucial period of Armenian history.' - Vahe Tachjian, Project director and chief editor of Houshamadyan Project and lecturer at the Peter Pazmany Catholic University in Budapest

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Susan Pattie is an Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London and former Director of the Armenian Institute in London. In recent years she served as Director of the Armenian Museum of America and was Program Manager of the National Armenian Genocide Centennial Commemorations in Washington, DC. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from University College London.

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