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"The definitive account of the organized destruction of the Ottoman Armenians . . . No future discussion of the history will be able to ignore this brilliant book."―Orhan Pamuk

Beginning in 1915, under the cover of a world war, some one million Armenians were killed through starvation, forced marches, and mass acts of slaughter. Although Armenians and the judgment of history have long held the Ottoman powers responsible for genocide, modern Turkey has rejected any such claim.

Now, in a pioneering work of excavation, Turkish historian Taner Akçam has made unprecedented use of Ottoman and other sources―military and court records, parliamentary minutes, letters, and eyewitness reports―to produce a scrupulous account of Ottoman culpability. Tracing the causes of the mass destruction, Akçam reconstructs its planning and implementation by the departments of state, the military, and the ruling political parties, and he probes the multiple failures to bring the perpetrators to justice.

As the topic of the Armenian genocide provokes ever-greater passion and controversy around the world, Akçam's work has only become more important and relevant. Beyond its timeliness, however, A Shameful Act is sure to take its lasting place as a classic and necessary work on the subject.

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"Akçam is the first Turkish scholar to call the massacres genocide; his impressive achievement here is to shine fresh light on exactly why and how the Ottoman Empire deported and slaughtered the Armenians."
―The New York Times Book Review

"No scholar has mined and synthesized the Ottoman Empire's internal documents and memoirs with Akçam's assiduous skill.... A Shameful Act is destined to become a touchstone for other studies.... Be grateful for Taner Akçam: he speaks the holy truth."
―Philadelphia Inquirer

"No one knows how many Armenians died at Turkish hands in the 1910s, but the number almost certainly exceeds one million. Akçam, writing from the safe distance of the University of Minnesota, has worked through thousands and thousands of documents to find concrete evidence thereof, against considerable difficulty. "
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Born in Ardahan province, Turkey, in 1953, Taner Akçam is the author of ten scholarly works of history and sociology, including A Shameful Act, as well as numerous articles in Turkish, German, and English. He currently teaches at Clark University.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Picador; 1st edition (August 21, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 496 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 080508665X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0805086652
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.11 x 8.5 inches

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Douglas Berry

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In 2016, on our last day in Istanbul, my wife and I visited the Military Museum. I loved it and took about a hundred pictures, but there was one galley we didn't enter. That was the one that was dedicated to denying the Armenian Genocide.

In this astounding and terrifying book, Taner Akçam traces the campaign against the Armenians and other Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire from the late 19th century dreams of expanding the Sultan's rule to ethnically Turkish states in Central Asia, through the rise of the nationalist movement, WWI, and finally to the aborted attempts to try those responsible for the atrocity and the eventual cover-up and denials.

Akçam details, using copious first-hand sources and documentation, every step of the process and shows that the CUP knew from the start that their goal was genocide. Naming names, he shows how officials marked people for removal, often pre-selecting Muslim families to take over properties or seizing it for themselves. How Areminans from one province were forced across a border into another province, where they were killed, allowing the officials in the first province to say they just moved the victims. It's disgusting.

Much of the information comes from the Extraordinary Court Martials held after the Turkish defeat in WWI. Reading how the disgraced and disbanded CUP reformed as the Nationalist Party, and then simply took in men who had been fingered as active participants in the genocide made my blood boil.

One thing I came away with was a greatly diminished view of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkey's greatest national hero and first president of the Republic. Lionized as a great leader and modernizer, he turned a blind eye to the genocide and actively worked to bury it.

This is a book anyone interested in history should read. And the Turkish government needs to admit that under their orders, even if it was still the Ottoman Empire, about one million Armenians and Greeks were systematically stripped of their rights and property, driven out of their homes, and murdered.

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Brian Koontz

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Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2017

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This book is a wonderful history of pre WWI Armenia

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Vahé Achikian

The Armenian Genocide told by a brave Turkish historian

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2015

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Finally a brave and matter-of-fact account of the history of WW1 Ottoman Turkey and the evil Tehcir Law which led to the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1916 and the extetmination and forced deportation of Ottoman Armenians from Turkey. İndeed Dr. Akçam makes no excuses or rebuttals for justifying the massacres and ateocities but rather in full honesty retells the true history of the Armenian massacres of WW1 on the lands of Ottoman Turkey based on his own research and to-date unrevealed Ottoman historic archives and documents from the 1913-1921 period. This is a must-read for all Ottoman historians, particularly for liars and deniers of truth such as Justin McCarthy and Stanford Shaw's bastards that are alive today.

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BernardZ

Yes a shameful act

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This obviously is a political book on a controversial past event. Since I know little on this subject so I bought this book to learn more on this subject but unfortunately it means that I cannot assess the facts of the book properly.

The argument of the writer is that a dangerous shift took place in the Ottoman Empire and its policy changed to a Turkish nationalism. To these Turkish nationalist the existence of the Armenians in Turkish areas was a threat to this state so from about 1915 to the early 1920's they created a planned genocide of the Armenians.

After reading the book which I found tedious in parts, I am not convinced that he has proved his argument that a genocide took place.

Genocide surprisingly is a difficult case to prove. Partly because fortunately we have few examples as they are not that common. However also because the evidence is suppressed and denied for example during WW2, the Nazi destroyed the evidence while they did it and after almost all senior Nazis denied knowledge or responsibility for it.

What the book does show is that last scale deportations of the Armenians took place and that these did result in large-scale crimes against them which include robbery, kidnapping and a million murders. Having said this, I am not so sure it matters whether a genocide took place, clearly many people were murdered because they were Armenians.

After 1920s when they should have some justice, it was denied. It is a shame that so few people that did these robbery, kidnapping and murders were punished.

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annieo

A historically important book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 16, 2013

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This book is a must read for anyone with an interest in ethnic conflict and the events leading to genocide. The words 'never again' have been spoken after many genocides; time has proven that again and again we fail to learn lessons from history. Refusing to acknowledge a genocide even happened further paves the way for more crimes against humanity. This book explains in a scholarly but readable manner the unique set of circumstances that paved the way to a genocide of one and a half million people, and perhaps gives some insight into why modern day Turkey still refuses to acknowledge the event. A dense book, but very well researched and a story skilfully told. Highly recommended.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2018

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A disaster well told.

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Anton Ralph

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More than happy with this book. A very important matter that needs to be highlighted. In really good condition. Highly recommended seller

Wissam

Very detailed and compelling.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 3, 2017

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Very detailed and compelling. I've often heard the discussion as to whether it was a massacre or genocide, Taner's use of Turkish sources shows it clearly was genocide. Shame the country refuses to officially acknowledge this as it's a refusal to learn from history.

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A moving Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 9, 2019

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A moving book. Shame on denying Turks to what they have done to Armenians, and still continue with their policies, with Kurds, and the rest of Turkish Population.

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