America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915

by Jay Murray Winter (Editor)

Long before Rwanda and Bosnia and the Holocaust, the first genocide of the twentieth century occurred in Turkish Armenia in 1915. The essays in this collection examine how Americans learned of this catastrophe and tried to help its victims. Knowledge and compassion, however, were not enough to stop the killings, and a terrible precedent was born in 1915. The Armenian genocide has haunted the U.S. and other Western countries throughout the twentieth century.

Genres: History

332 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Jeni Enjaian · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a compilation of essays stemming from a Scholarly conference on the Armenian Genocide. Each essay tackles a different aspect of the American response to the Genocide including determining just how much information American leaders and the general public had. Each essay is well written. This book is a valuable resource for the study of the Armenian Genocide.