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The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response by [Balakian, Peter]
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  • File Size: 1647 KB
  • Print Length: 528 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins e-books (October 13, 2009)
  • Publication Date: October 13, 2009
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B000W94EC4
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5.0 out of 5 starsKemalist denial of genocide exposed
By A Customer on December 13, 2003
Format: Hardcover
First I like to say this is most important work on the genocidal ethnic cleansing of Ermeni people from Anatolia. I am Turk and I am from the area where the Ermeni were killed that is mentioned in the book, Hazar Golu. Around this lake are buried thousands upon thousands of Ermeni. Everybody who lives around here knows this is truth! They know Ermenians were killed like sheep not fighting! In my family village Ermeni lived peacefully, strangers came and murdered all of them! No deportation, no relocation. My grandfather tells me this. Only people who lie about this are kemalists who profit from illegal government of Turkiye. The kemalists who deny Ermenian Jenocide in reviewing this book are the grandchildren of those who killed the Ermenians. It is their interest to lie. Turkish government is built upon the bones of the Ermenians, Greeks, Suriyani, Zaza, and Kurds. Who does jenocide and admits to it? Nobody! Germans did not say even when they were killing Jews! It was "relocation" just like what the kemalist government of Turkiye says today. There two types of people in Turkiye today: kemalists and the good people of Turkiye. I hope this book will be translated to Turkish. This book tells the truth about everything Turkish government did and does to the Ermenian people. The most important chapter is on Turkish work to lie today about what happened. Many Ermenian village and homes are empty even today. I hope when the kemalist government and their agents leave power forever, the Ermenian people come back to their properties and villages and live happy lives. This book could be a stepping stone to a confederation of Anatolian peoples.
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5.0 out of 5 starsexcellent account
By A Customer on January 20, 2004
Format: Hardcover
I highly recommend this book to those individuals who want to find the truth to our world history. After reading the reviews of others, it is clear to me that some individuals find this book disturbing because this is probably the first time in which they have been told that the young turks killed more than 1 million armenians. Some individuals attempt to discredit this book saying that Balakian is a poet not a historian. However, all of Balakians sources have been taken from historians, american politicians, survivors and from the young turks. The Turkish Government must come forward and recognize the terror they spread through the Ottoman Empire in the early part of the 20th century.
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5.0 out of 5 starsHow soon we forget the real first 20th century holocaust
By C. Catherwood on October 11, 2003
Format: Hardcover
It does not in any way diminish the sheer horror of the holocaust against the Jews to say that the Turks did exactly the same to the Armenians only a few decades before - and with far less international condemnation. The Armenian massacres were the first genocide, holocaust, ethnic cleansing, call it what you will - and it is great that the truth about these barbaric events are now coming to the fore. Buy this book, give it to your friends and get involved in telling people about the hidden massacre of the 20th century. Christopher Catherwood, author of CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS AND ISLAMIC RAGE (Zondervan, 2003)
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5.0 out of 5 starsA people Killed Twice
By A Customer on November 28, 2003
Format: Hardcover
I am a book collector on Near Eastern history, the way you can tell a book is well researched and written is by the referencing and the bibliography contained in the book.I must say that this book has an amazing bibliography which includes books written mainly by non-Armenians and were printed before, during and directly after the events which occurred. On the other hand almost every book which is printed to deny the Armenian Genocide uses only recently published books which were published by other denialists.
In 1985, the UN Committee on Human Rights published a report declaring the Ottoman Empire responsible for the massacres of the Armenians in 1915 and 1916. Two years later, the Council of Europe agreed that Turkey's refusal to recognise the genocide was an insurmountable obstacle to Turkey's admission to the EU. By the end of 2000, the European Parliament, France, Sweden, the Vatican and Italy finally acknowledged the Armenian genocide. Of the major powers, only the US, Canada and Britain still hold back. There are too many conflicting interests at stake. Turkey, for instance, threatened to deny the US use of its air bases if President Clinton agreed formally to accept the massacres as a genocide.
Turkey has offered funding for academic programmes in the universities of Princeton and Georgetown. Three years ago, UCLA's history department voted to reject a $1m offer to endow a programme in Turkish and Ottoman studies because it was conditional on their denying the Armenian genocide. Professor Colin Tatz, director for the Centre for Comparative Genocide Studies at Macquarie University, in Sydney, Australia, claims that Turkey has used "a mix of academic sophistication and diplomatic thuggery . . . to put both memory and history into reverse gear".Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsIt made me weep
By A Customer on October 4, 2003
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and it made me proud to learn of America's first international human rights endeavor and the many acts of altruism carried out by State Department officials as well as by grassroots Americana -- from Sunday schoolers to Clara Barton and more --to save Armenian lives during the tragedy of the horrific Armenian Genocide. From the opening sentence one can see Balakian writes with a poet's eye but his heart and soul belong to historical witness and testimony. This scrupulously researched and detailed account will not disappoint and will keep readers turning pages. Finally a clear concise eloquent historical narrative of the 20th century's first genocide.
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5.0 out of 5 starsHad to put it aside often, due to the ...

Had to put it aside often, due to the heart-breaking reality of the information therein.
A VERY Informative book, which adds to and substantiates a lot of information in other... Read more

Published 17 days ago by DrPhyl
5.0 out of 5 starsI give it five stars

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... Read more

Published 1 month ago by David Freydkin
5.0 out of 5 starsTEMPLATE for a HOLOCAUST: the purge of Armenian Christians

Chose to read this because I had a pop-up from World Vision--works worldwide as Christian mission. Further investigation revealed that 10,000 donors pulled their support of a child... Read more

Published 5 months ago by Eudora
5.0 out of 5 starsPeter Balakian is a fantastic writer and I thoroughly enjoy his...

Always a heavy topic to read about but the stories cannot go untold lest they be forgotten. Peter Balakian is a fantastic writer and I thoroughly enjoy his writing and novels. Read more

Published 7 months ago by Caroline M.
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Great book. It taught me so much about my family's history. Thank you.

Published 7 months ago by Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 starsForget us not.

Exactly the book I was after.

Published 7 months ago by Matthew Borders
5.0 out of 5 starsTurkey has Blood on its Hands!

This is a powerful book, and it is one that should be read more than once. Turkey was once Greek and Armenian. Its great buildings, its cities, its food, etc. Read more

Published 8 months ago by Yunder Hurriken
4.0 out of 5 starsVery disturbing book to read.

Very disturbing book to read. I was looking for a book that would give me the history of the Armenian genocide. This met my expectations. Read more

Published 11 months ago by LanceA
5.0 out of 5 stars"The Armenian Problem"

This is such a well-written and informative book, covering a period in history which many have barely heard of, if at all. Read more

Published 11 months ago by sally tarbox
1.0 out of 5 starsNone of us could get through the book as while the topic was horrible,...

Our book group selected this book to learn more about the Armenian genocide. None of us could get through the book as while the topic was horrible, the challenge as a reader was... Read more

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