The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response
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A History of International Human Rights and Forgotten Heroes
In this national bestseller, the critically acclaimed author Peter Balakian brings us a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Using rarely seen archival documents and remarkable first-person accounts, Balakian presents the chilling history of how the Turkish government implemented the first modern genocide behind the cover of World War I. And in the telling, he resurrects an extraordinary lost chapter of American history.
Awarded the Raphael Lemkin Prize for the best scholarly book on genocide by the Institute for Genocide Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY Graduate Center.
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Riveting Bestseller...
Balakian’s bestselling & award-winning account of the Armenian Genocide exposes atrocities often overlooked in the study of early 20th century history.
Peter Balakian
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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Reviews for The Burning Tigris
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5interesting topic badly handled
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My friend Ed picked this one a few summers ago when Joel was preparing to teach a Genocide course. We were all affected by the book. Ed was bothered by Joel's ultimate distinction that genocide as a legal term didn't occur against the Armenians. That sevred their friendship in a sense. I am still glad to have embarked on the opprtunity.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My Amazon review:I gave this 5 stars not just for content but mainly for the incredible fact that almost 100 years later people (i.e. the Turkish nation) dare to deny the reality of what was done to the Armenian people. Not only deny but criminalize the mentioning of it!!! If this book does not make you angry then absolutely nothing on this earth will, especially in light of the ongoing denial. The evidence presented from dozens of FIRST-HAND accounts makes no doubt about what happened. Extermination on a scale and with a level of violence that is really just overwhelming, breathtaking. On a percent of population basis worse perhaps than what Jews experienced in WW2. I don't know...gassed or starved/walked/raped/crucified/hacked/stabbed to death? There is no worse than can be done to humans than what the Turks did. On an unimaginable scale. Fact. The utter depravity of the Turks is stomach-turning, but their continued denial is in a way worse. At least for the now-living. In no way does Turkey belong in the 'West' (EU or anywhere) while continuing to deny their role in this horrific GENOCIDE. And for anyone still believing in a non-militant version of Islam read this book. When Islam becomes the majority in any country this is likely what any non-Islamic population that dares to resist it will face if a crisis arises. Otherwise you may be free to live as a second-class citizen in that country. The deeds recounted in this terror tome are truly horrific. Forced conversion, widespread brutal rape, crucifixions, most if not all done in the name of Allah (with a heavy does of incredible greed). Have no doubt whatsoever people. It reinforces truths about Islam that are hard to accept but must be if we are to face the reality of our world. The amount of attention given to the WW2 Holocaust is fine but this still-denied seminal event in human history demands greater attention. In schools everywhere to start, no wait, in TURKISH schools to start.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everything included in this book made up a fascinating and gripping account of an inappropriately obscure series of events that encompassed a major historical tragedy. However, I found myself wondering about many matters not directly or thoroughly addressed in this book, especially in the material that covers the years after the 1915 massacres. For instance, I wanted to know more about the experience of deportation victims who somehow got on with their lives in the midst of starvation, illness, and the continuing threat of violence; the post-war government in Turkey that allowed trials of the genocidal leaders to occur; the reactions of different groups within Turkey to the genocide; the nature of the Armenian nation that emerged among traumatized survivors and was absorbed by the Soviet Union; and what of the traditional Armenian culture endured throughout the following century.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Interesting and very engaging piece of work, based on great research and a lot of materials to draw upon. th many chapters describing the public sentiment in the US and the State department efforts during the Genocide might discourage the non-American reader from continuing to read the rest of the book, but these chapters do provide a authentic view of US sentiments during those terrible times.The book provides many witness accounts and testimonies of Genocide survivals, perpetrators and of people who were present in Turkey from late 19th century until 1920s.Highly recommended.