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The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response Paperback – October 5, 2004

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A History of International Human Rights and Forgotten Heroes

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 the cover of World War I. And in the telling, he resurrects an extraordinary lost chapter of American history.

Awarded the Raphael Lemkin Prize for the best scholarly book on genocide by the Institute for Genocide Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY Graduate Center.

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English
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October 5, 2004
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5.31 x 1.19 x 8 inches
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0060558709
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978-0060558703
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Editorial Reviews

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“In this important book, Balakian proves adept at presenting both human horror and political tragedy.” -- Booklist

The terrible fate of the Armenians... is brilliantly described. A great service to the history of the Armenians.” -- Sir Martin Gilbert, author of The Righteous: the Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust

“An eloquent account of Turkey’s long campaign to rid itself of Armenians....Thoroughly convincing.” -- Kirkus Reviews

“Peter Balakian tells the powerful and largely unknown story of [Armenian Genocide]. This important and compelling book is long overdue.” -- Deborah E. Lipstadt, Ph.D., Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies Director, Emory University

“The Burning Tigris is an act of acute historical memory, of personal testimony, of prophetic witness - and of high art.” -- James Carroll, author of Constantine's Sword and Secret Father

“A gripping treatment of the official Turkish mass murder...a masterpiece of moral history...it needs to be widely read.” -- Paul Fussell, author of The Great War and Modern Memory and Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War

“Balakian tells a story long ripe for the telling.... He writes with grace and power.” -- Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, The University of Chicago, author of Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World

“[A] fascinating and affecting memoir.” -- New York Times Book Review

“Richly imagined and carefully documented.” -- The New Yorker

“[An] engrossing and poignant memoir.” -- San Francisco Chronicle

“A mighty work, a slow burn of muted eloquence, dense with scholarship...compelling.” -- Forward

About the Author

Peter Balakian is the author of Black Dog of Fate, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Prize for Memoir and a New York Times Notable Book, and June-tree: New and Selected Poems 1974–2000. He is the recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. He holds a Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University and teaches at Colgate University, where he is a Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Perennial (October 5, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 528 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0060558709
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0060558703
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1400L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.01 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 1.19 x 8 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #439,345 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #212 in Turkey History (Books)
- #591 in Human Rights Law (Books)
- #878 in Middle Eastern Politics

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David Freydkin

I give it five stars

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2016

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I finished The Burning Tigris three days ago. Overall, a very informative read about the Ottoman Empire's genocides on its Armenian minority, the responses of the US government and Americans, the responses of other European powers, as well as how the genocide is viewed presently. Below is a summary.

1) Armenian citizens of the Ottoman Empire were slaughtered both under the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II in the late 1800s and the CUP government of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s. Victims included men, women, and children.

2) The murders took place in a variety of ways. Citizens were slaughtered by Ottoman troops as well as Kurdish gangs. Many more were forced on mass transits from their homes in eastern Turkey to present day Syria whether by train or foot and died along the way. Men were often drafted into labor battalions of the Ottoman army and killed while "serving."

3) The governments of Britain, France, the US, and Russia did little to nothing to save the Armenians.

4) There was a substantial presence of American Protestant missionaries in Ottoman Turkey at the time who did much to save and shelter the victims. However, these missionaries opposed a declaration of war on Ottoman Turkey by the US due to fear of losing their property there.

5) President Woodrow Wilson, who was in debilitating health and likely influenced by missionary friends, did not declare war on Ottoman Turkey.

6) Largely due to Turkey's strategic location and influence in the oil-rich middle east, most countries do not recognize the massacres of millions of Armenians as genocide.

Less than 30 countries worldwide recognize the Armenian Genocide. The ones that do are mainly either in Europe or South America.

20 people found this helpful

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Deestarr1

20th Century Genocide

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2015

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Genocide or the deliberate destruction and murder of others based on race, religion, culture, gender, sexual orientation, or age has been a part of human society since the very beginning. The Holocaust against Jews, Gypsies, Gays and Lesbians, political dissidents and others considered "undesirable" by the Nazi government during their time in power was not the first genocide to occur in the 20th century. The genocide committed against the Armenian population during World War I forced thousands of Armenian residents to flee their homes, they were stripped of property, belongings and legal rights, often forced to change their religion, forced into concentration camps, murdered, and their women and children kidnapped by the Turks. This tragedy occurred primarily as a response to the despotic leadership of the Turkish Ottoman government at the time as many Armenian intellectuals in Turkey were part of what was termed "The Young Turks" movement which sought legal, religious, and political reform within the Ottoman Empire. Much like during the Holocaust the United States and other nations did very little to offer help to the victims other than allowing some to immigrate, and sending in assistance from private charitable organizations, and much like during the Holocaust our government and the governments of Europe knew what was going on and did nothing to stop it very early on even before World War I began (the oppression against Armenians began in the 1880s).

Balakian presents a historically accurate image of what the United States government knew and how they sought to address the deliberate genocide against the Armenians without becoming involved in World War I or other international conflicts occurring at the time. Balakian's writing is succinct, detailed, and he relies on primary source documents including US government documents from the period, letters and journals of Armenian victims of the genocide as well as letters and journals from Turks who participated in the genocide, and newspaper reports from the time. Overall this is a strong accounting of what occurred in Armenia between 1880 and 1918 and how it impacted the Armenian people. Balakian creates a powerful picture that shows that genocide effects everyone not just the victims.

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Linda Brebner

"Remember the Starving Armenians"

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2015

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I found this book most helpful in understanding the Armenian Genocide in the early 1900s. I always wondered why my Mother would urge me to remember the starving Armenians when I didn't want to eat all of my dinner. In later years, I wondered how she as a young girl in Northern Indiana would have known what was happening to the Armenians. This book revealed the relationship between Christians in this country and in Turkey.

I was also most impressed to see that the build up to the Turkish Genocide of the Armenians was similar to the history in Europe before the Holocaust, and many believe that this was the prototype of all the genocides to follow, including the Holocaust, Bosnia, Ruwanda, etc. The impact of this piece of history continues to impact the Middle East to this day. This is both a sobering and informative reflection on a historical chapter about which we have heard, but know little.

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Charles

Misprinted but good book

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2020

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A few chapters are misprinted but otherwise it's good read. Did not know there was such a big movement for the support of Armenians (wish it was more of a human rights and not just because they were Protestant Armenians - kind of funny how people don't care much unless there is religion involved). Three stars for the book itself (more of a five star) but two stars because Chapter One is printed 1.5 times and then the preface and repeated to Chapter One.

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Bruce Atkins

The WW I holocaust of Christians

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2019

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To understand the Middle East of today you need to know about its roots in WW I. You also will discover that genocide is not a creation of the Nazis but began before the turn of the century when the Turks decided to eliminate the Armenian people from Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. If this all sounds new to you, welcome to the real Middle East. You can also learn how private American citizens tried to stop this horror while it just beginning. Peter Balakian, the author, does an excellent job of making the complex coherent and inhumanity explicit. It is strong medicine but one western society needs to take.

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Randal C. Fritz

Print too small

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2019

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The print is so small it is impossible to read without a mag-glass. I can't figure out why authors permit the publishers to do this to their incredible works. This is an important book to read yet the words are all jumbled together.

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