The Armenian Legionnaires: Sacrifice and Betrayal in World War I

ISBN-13: 9781788311250 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

Susan Pattie

Opis

An insight into relations between the Great Powers through the lens of a small, powerless people caught in a war that was not their own

Recenzje

Celebratory and heroic. It is written in the style of retrieving noble lost causes, gestures of bravery and fortitude that deserve preservation ... The photographs and first-person accounts of military service in the Middle East are intriguing. Slavonic and East European Review

Spis treści

TABLE OF CONTENTSDedicationAcknowledgementsNote on the Content of The Armenian LegionnairesTimelineChapter One: Armenians in a World at WarIntroduction and ContextChapter Two: The Armenian Legion at the Crossroads of Imperial PoliticsBy Varak KetsemanianChapter Three: Recruitment and the VoyageChapter Four: Training in CyprusChapter Five: Palestine and Preparation for BattleChapter Six: The Battle of AraraChapter Seven: The Next Stages: BeirutChapter Eight: To Cilicia, "The Promised Land"Chapter Nine: Repatriation and Increasing UncertaintiesChapter Ten: The Transfer of Power in MarashChapter Eleven: The Battles of Marash or "The Marash Affair"Chapter Twelve: The AftermathEpilogueAppendixShort Biographies Dickran Boyajian by Mark MamigonianVahan Portukalian by Gagik Stepan-SarkissianHagop ArevianOvsia Saghdejian by Vahe ApelianB.Letters and DeclarationsOfficial Declaration to the Armenian PeopleStatement by General Henri GouraudLetters of Commendation (excerpts) compiled by BoyajianC."The French Record in Cilicia" from the Christian Science Monitor, 1921. An interview with legionnaire Lieutenant John Shishmanian.Bibliography and Further Reading

O autorze

Susan Pattie is an Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London, and former Director of the Armenian Institute in London, UK.