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A history of the Armenian massacres of the 1890s and the genocide of 1915 also traces America's effort to assist the Armenian people, citing the contributions of such figures as Julia Ward Howe, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Mark Twain, and Clara Barton. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

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[A] fascinating and affecting memoir. -- New York Times Book Review

Richly imagined and carefully documented. -- The New Yorker [An] engrossing and poignant memoir. -- San Francisco Chronicle [A] fascinating and affecting memoir. -- New York Times Book Review A gripping treatment of the official Turkish mass murder...a masterpiece of moral history...it needs to be widely read. --Paul Fussell, author of The Great War and Modern Memory and Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War In this important book, Balakian proves adept at presenting both human horror and political tragedy. --Booklist An eloquent account of Turkey's long campaign to rid itself of Armenians....Thoroughly convincing. --Kirkus Reviews [An] engrossing and poignant memoir. --San Francisco Chronicle Richly imagined and carefully documented. --The New Yorker A mighty work, a slow burn of muted eloquence, dense with scholarship...compelling. --Forward [A] fascinating and affecting memoir. --New York Times Book Review Balakian tells a story long ripe for the telling.... He writes with grace and power. --Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, The University of Chicago, author of Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World The Burning Tigris is an act of acute historical memory, of personal testimony, of prophetic witness - and of high art. --James Carroll, author of Constantine's Sword and Secret Father Peter Balakian tells the powerful and largely unknown story of [Armenian Genocide]. This important and compelling book is long overdue. --Deborah E. Lipstadt, Ph.D., Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies Director, Emory University In this important book, Balakian proves adept at presenting both human horror and political tragedy. --Booklist An eloquent account of Turkey s long campaign to rid itself of Armenians....Thoroughly convincing. --Kirkus Reviews Peter Balakian tells the powerful and largely unknown story of [Armenian Genocide]. This important and compelling book is long overdue. --Deborah E. Lipstadt, Ph.D., Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies Director, Emory University The Burning Tigris is an act of acute historical memory, of personal testimony, of prophetic witness - and of high art. --James Carroll, author of Constantine's Sword and Secret Father A gripping treatment of the official Turkish mass murder...a masterpiece of moral history...it needs to be widely read. --Paul Fussell, author of The Great War and Modern Memory and Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War Balakian tells a story long ripe for the telling.... He writes with grace and power. --Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, The University of Chicago, author of Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World Richly imagined and carefully documented. --The New Yorker [A] fascinating and affecting memoir. --New York Times Book Review [An] engrossing and poignant memoir. --San Francisco Chronicle A mighty work, a slow burn of muted eloquence, dense with scholarship...compelling. --Forward The terrible fate of the Armenians... is brilliantly described. A great service to the history of the Armenians. --Sir Martin Gilbert, author of The Righteous: the Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust

Richly imagined and carefully documented. --The New Yorker

The terrible fate of the Armenians... is brilliantly described. A great service to the history of the Armenians. --Sir Martin Gilbert, author of The Righteous: the Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust A gripping treatment of the official Turkish mass murder...a masterpiece of moral history...it needs to be widely read. --Paul Fussell, author of The Great War and Modern Memory and Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War A mighty work, a slow burn of muted eloquence, dense with scholarship...compelling. --Forward Balakian tells a story long ripe for the telling.... He writes with grace and power. --Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, The University of Chicago, author of Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World Peter Balakian tells the powerful and largely unknown story of [Armenian Genocide]. This important and compelling book is long overdue. --Deborah E. Lipstadt, Ph.D., Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies Director, Emory University The Burning Tigris is an act of acute historical memory, of personal testimony, of prophetic witness - and of high art. --James Carroll, author of Constantine's Sword and Secret Father [A] fascinating and affecting memoir. --New York Times Book Review [An] engrossing and poignant memoir. --San Francisco Chronicle Richly imagined and carefully documented. --The New Yorker In this important book, Balakian proves adept at presenting both human horror and political tragedy. --Booklist An eloquent account of Turkey's long campaign to rid itself of Armenians....Thoroughly convincing. --Kirkus Reviews

[A] fascinating and affecting memoir. -- New York Times Book Review Richly imagined and carefully documented. -- The New Yorker [An] engrossing and poignant memoir. -- San Francisco Chronicle [An] engrossing and poignant memoir. --San Francisco Chronicle A mighty work, a slow burn of muted eloquence, dense with scholarship...compelling. --Forward A gripping treatment of the official Turkish mass murder...a masterpiece of moral history...it needs to be widely read. --Paul Fussell, author of The Great War and Modern Memory and Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War [A] fascinating and affecting memoir. --New York Times Book Review Balakian tells a story long ripe for the telling.... He writes with grace and power. --Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, The University of Chicago, author of Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World The Burning Tigris is an act of acute historical memory, of personal testimony, of prophetic witness - and of high art. --James Carroll, author of Constantine's Sword and Secret Father Peter Balakian tells the powerful and largely unknown story of [Armenian Genocide]. This important and compelling book is long overdue. --Deborah E. Lipstadt, Ph.D., Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies Director, Emory University In this important book, Balakian proves adept at presenting both human horror and political tragedy. --Booklist An eloquent account of Turkey's long campaign to rid itself of Armenians....Thoroughly convincing. --Kirkus Reviews Richly imagined and carefully documented. --The New Yorker An eloquent account of Turkey s long campaign to rid itself of Armenians....Thoroughly convincing. --Kirkus Reviews A gripping treatment of the official Turkish mass murder...a masterpiece of moral history...it needs to be widely read. --Paul Fussell, author of The Great War and Modern Memory and Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War [A] fascinating and affecting memoir. --New York Times Book Review A mighty work, a slow burn of muted eloquence, dense with scholarship...compelling. --Forward In this important book, Balakian proves adept at presenting both human horror and political tragedy. --Booklist Peter Balakian tells the powerful and largely unknown story of [Armenian Genocide]. This important and compelling book is long overdue. --Deborah E. Lipstadt, Ph.D., Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies Director, Emory University The Burning Tigris is an act of acute historical memory, of personal testimony, of prophetic witness - and of high art. --James Carroll, author of Constantine's Sword and Secret Father Balakian tells a story long ripe for the telling.... He writes with grace and power. --Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, The University of Chicago, author of Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World Richly imagined and carefully documented. --The New Yorker [An] engrossing and poignant memoir. --San Francisco Chronicle The terrible fate of the Armenians... is brilliantly described. A great service to the history of the Armenians. --Sir Martin Gilbert, author of The Righteous: the Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust

A mighty work, a slow burn of muted eloquence, dense with scholarship...compelling. --Forward [A] fascinating and affecting memoir. --New York Times Book Review The Burning Tigris is an act of acute historical memory, of personal testimony, of prophetic witness - and of high art. --James Carroll, author of Constantine's Sword and Secret Father In this important book, Balakian proves adept at presenting both human horror and political tragedy. --Booklist [An] engrossing and poignant memoir. --San Francisco Chronicle Richly imagined and carefully documented. --The New Yorker A gripping treatment of the official Turkish mass murder...a masterpiece of moral history...it needs to be widely read. --Paul Fussell, author of The Great War and Modern Memory and Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War Balakian tells a story long ripe for the telling.... He writes with grace and power. --Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, The University of Chicago, author of Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World Peter Balakian tells the powerful and largely unknown story of [Armenian Genocide]. This important and compelling book is long overdue. --Deborah E. Lipstadt, Ph.D., Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies Director, Emory University An eloquent account of Turkey's long campaign to rid itself of Armenians....Thoroughly convincing. --Kirkus Reviews The terrible fate of the Armenians... is brilliantly described. A great service to the history of the Armenians. --Sir Martin Gilbert, author of The Righteous: the Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust

A mighty work, a slow burn of muted eloquence, dense with scholarship...compelling. --Forward

Richly imagined and carefully documented. -- The New Yorker [An] engrossing and poignant memoir. -- San Francisco Chronicle [A] fascinating and affecting memoir. -- New York Times Book Review A mighty work, a slow burn of muted eloquence, dense with scholarship...compelling. --Forward A gripping treatment of the official Turkish mass murder...a masterpiece of moral history...it needs to be widely read. --Paul Fussell, author of The Great War and Modern Memory and Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War [A] fascinating and affecting memoir. --New York Times Book Review Balakian tells a story long ripe for the telling.... He writes with grace and power. --Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, The University of Chicago, author of Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World The Burning Tigris is an act of acute historical memory, of personal testimony, of prophetic witness - and of high art. --James Carroll, author of Constantine's Sword and Secret Father Peter Balakian tells the powerful and largely unknown story of [Armenian Genocide]. This important and compelling book is long overdue. --Deborah E. Lipstadt, Ph.D., Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies Director, Emory University In this important book, Balakian proves adept at presenting both human horror and political tragedy. --Booklist An eloquent account of Turkey's long campaign to rid itself of Armenians....Thoroughly convincing. --Kirkus Reviews [An] engrossing and poignant memoir. --San Francisco Chronicle Richly imagined and carefully documented. --The New Yorker In this important book, Balakian proves adept at presenting both human horror and political tragedy. --Booklist An eloquent account of Turkey s long campaign to rid itself of Armenians....Thoroughly convincing. --Kirkus Reviews Peter Balakian tells the powerful and largely unknown story of [Armenian Genocide]. This important and compelling book is long overdue. --Deborah E. Lipstadt, Ph.D., Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies Director, Emory University The Burning Tigris is an act of acute historical memory, of personal testimony, of prophetic witness - and of high art. --James Carroll, author of Constantine's Sword and Secret Father A gripping treatment of the official Turkish mass murder...a masterpiece of moral history...it needs to be widely read. --Paul Fussell, author of The Great War and Modern Memory and Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War Balakian tells a story long ripe for the telling.... He writes with grace and power. --Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, The University of Chicago, author of Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World [A] fascinating and affecting memoir. --New York Times Book Review Richly imagined and carefully documented. --The New Yorker [An] engrossing and poignant memoir. --San Francisco Chronicle A mighty work, a slow burn of muted eloquence, dense with scholarship...compelling. --Forward The terrible fate of the Armenians... is brilliantly described. A great service to the history of the Armenians. --Sir Martin Gilbert, author of The Righteous: the Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust

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Peter Balakian is the author of Black Dog of Fate, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Prize for Memoir and a New York Times Notable Book, and June-tree: New and Selected Poems 1974-2000. He is the recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. He holds a Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University and teaches at Colgate University, where he is a Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities.

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