The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response Woodrow Wilson Sites of Memory

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The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response Woodrow Wilson Sites of MemoryDescription by Peter Balakian Paperback 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