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The Armenian Genocide: A Selected Bibliography Historical Analyses Akçam, Taner. A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility. Macmillan, 2006. Akçam. Taner. Dialogue Across an International Divide: Essays towards a Turkish-Armenian Dialogue. Zoryan Institute, 2001. Akçam, Taner. The Young Turks Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire. Princeton University Press, 2012. Balakian, Peter. The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response. Harper Perennial, 2004. Dadrian, Vahakn N. German Responsibility in the Armenian Genocide: A Review of the Historical Evidence of German Complicity. Blue Crane Books, 1996. Dadrian, Vahakn N. The History of the Armenian Genocide. Berghahn Books, 2003. Dadrian, Vahakn N. The Key Elements in the Turkish Denial of the Armenian Genocide: A Case Study of Distortion and Falsification. Zoryan Institute, 1999. Dadrian, Vahakn N. Warrant for Genocide: Key Elements of Turko-Armenian Conflict. Transaction Publishers, 1999. Dadrian, Vahakn N. and Taner Akçam. Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials. Berghahn Books, 2011. Hovannisian, Richard G. Enlightenment and Diaspora: the Armenian and Jewish Cases. Scholars PR, 1999. Hovannisian, Richard G. Looking Backward, Moving Forward: Confronting the Armenian Genocide. Transaction Publishers, 2003. Hovannisian, Richard G. Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide. Wayne State University Press, 1999. Suny, Ronal Grigor. They Can Live in the Dessert But Nowhere Else: a History of the Armenian Genocide. Princeton University Press, 2015. Suny, Ronald Grigor, Fatma Muge Gocek, and Norman M. Naimark, eds., A Question of Genocide. Oxford University Press, 2011. © World Without Genocide, 2015 2 Memoirs Balakian, Grigoris. Armenian Golgotha. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009. Panian, Karnig. Goodbye, Antoura: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide. Stanford University Press, 2015. Davis, Leslie A. The Slaughterhouse Province: An American Diplomat’s Report on the Armenian Genocide, 1915- 1917. Aristide D. Caratzas Publishers, 1989. Miller, Donald and Lorna Miller. Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide. University of California Press, 1999. Fiction Bohjalian, Chris. The Sandcastle Girls. Random House, 2012. Werfel, Franz. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. 1933. Narrative Nonfiction Ureneck, Lou. The Great Fire: Two Americans’ Mission to Rescue Victims of the 20th Century's First Genocide. Harper Collins, 2015. Films Aghet: Nation Murder, 2010. Ararat, 2002. The Armenian Genocide, 2006. The Armenian Genocide: 90 Years Later, 2005. The Cut, 2014. Destination Nowhere: The Witness, 2000. Grandma’s Tattoos, 2011. Screamers, 2006. Voices from the Lake: The Secret Genocide, 2003. This list represents a small number of the many publications on the Armenian genocide. We welcome your recommendations. ©World Without Genocide, 2015 .

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Grigoris Balakian, Armenian Golgotha
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal Volume 5 Issue 1 Article 9 April 2010 Book Review: Grigoris Balakian, Armenian Golgotha Robert Melson Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/gsp Recommended Citation Melson, Robert (2010) "Book Review: Grigoris Balakian, Armenian Golgotha," Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 5: Iss. 1: Article 9. Available at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol5/iss1/9 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Open Access Journals at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal by an authorized editor of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Book Review Grigoris Balakian, Armenian Golgotha. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Pp. 509, cloth. $35.00 US. Reviewed by Robert Melson, Professor Emeritus, Purdue University, and Cohen-Lasry Distinguished Professor, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University The twenty-fourth of April 1915 is the date that marks the commencement of the Armenian Genocide. On that day, Grigoris Balakian, a high-ranking Armenian priest, was among the 250 Armenian religious, political, and cultural leaders who were arrested in Constantinople and sent 200 miles east to Chankiri to await their fate. While most of his companions were killed or died during the genocide, Balakian survived both the genocide and World War I. When the war ended in 1918, he started to write Armenian Golgotha. This is an astonishing memoir and meditation on his survival and on the course of the mass murder that destroyed more than half of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire.
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Genocide Bibliography
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