Armenian Golgotha A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918 [Paperback]

On April 24, 1915, Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other leaders of Constantinople’s Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Empire’s systematic attempt to eliminate the Armenian people from Turkey—a campaign that continued through World War I and the fall of the empire. Over the next four years, Balakian would bear witness to a seemingly endless caravan of blood, surviving to recount his miraculous escape and expose the atrocities that led to over a million deaths.
 
Armenian Golgothais Balakian’s devastating eyewitness account—a haunting reminder of the first modern genocide and a controversial historical document that is destined to become a classic of survivor literature.“A fascinating first-hand testimony to a monumental crime.”
—The New Yorker
 
“Gripping. . . . A powerful and important book. . . . It takes its place as one of the key first-hand sources for understanding the Armenian Genocide.”
—Mark Mazower,The New Republic
 
“Powerful. . . . Riveting. . . . A poignant, often harrowing story about the resiliency of the human spirit [and] a window on a moment in history that most Americans only dimly understand.”
—Chris Bohjalian,Washington Post

“An immensely moving, harrowing memoir that instantly takes its place as a classic alongside Primo Levi’sSurvival in Auschwitzand Elie Wiesel’sNight.”
—Carlin Romano,The Chronicle of Higher Education

“Read this heartbreaking book.Armenian Golgothadescribes the suffering, agony and massacre of innumerable Armenian families almost a century ago; its memory must remain a lesson for more than one generation.”
—Elie Wiesel, author ofNight

“An appalling and magnificent book. . . . It owes its existence to [Balakian’s] dlC(