3 New Books At Armenianhouse.org

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3 new books has been added to the Armenian Electronic Library during the last 2 weeks.

1. Letters from the Scenes of the Recent Massacres in Armenia by Rendel J. Harris & Helen B. Harris

This is a collection of letters from a missionary couple who visited Turkish Armenia in 1896. The book was published in 1897 and is a rarity.

2. Turkey and the Armenian Atrocities by Edwin Munsell Bliss (1896).

Considered to be the most complete primary source by a Western author on the Hamidian massacres plus contains lots of information on the history of Turkey, its population and religious situation back then.

There are huge separate chapters on:

- Turks: http://armenianhouse.org/bliss/turkey/04-turks.html

- Kurds: http://armenianhouse.org/bliss/turkey/05-kurds.html

- Greeks: http://armenianhouse.org/bliss/turkey/07-greeks.html

- Armenians: http://armenianhouse.org/bliss/turkey/06-armenians.html

3. Report of the American Military Mission to Armenia by Major General James G. Harbord.

It was presented to the U.S. Senate in 1920 and contained a detailed review of situation in Turkish Armenia and Transcaucasia after World War I.

I would say ‘enjoy’, but there is nothing to enjoy in those books. Pain, killings, rape, robbery, desperate people forced to convert to Islam just to save their lives. It was VERY emotionally exhausting to work on those books.

Karen Vrtanesyan

http://armenianhouse.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1951