Armenian Genocide: The Great Crime of World War I

A moving, gripping short history of the "forgotten genocide", told through the stories of those who witnessed it. Crammed into cattle trucks and deported to camps, shot and buried in mass graves, or force-marched to over 1.5 million Armenians were murdered by the Turkish state, twenty years before the start of Hitler's Holocaust. It was described as a crime against humanity and Turkey was condemned by Russia, France, Great Britain and the United States. But two decades later the genocide had been conveniently forgotten. Hitler justified his Polish death squads by asking in 1939: 'Who after all is today speaking about the destruction of the Armenians?' Armenian Genocide  is a new, gripping short history that tells the story of a forgotten  the men and women who died, the few who survived, and the diplomats who tried to intervene.