Rebel Land: Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town by Bellaigue, Christopher de - 2010

New York: Penguin Press, 2010. First US Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First American Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket AS NEW. Clean, unmarked, tight & solid volume. Jacket unclipped. Christopher de Bellaigue, journalist for the Economist in 2001 and based in Istanbul, wrote a piece about the history of Turkey for the New York Review of Books and briefly mentioned the killing and deportation of half a million Armenians in 1915 and suggested it was best understood as a part of the struggles that were part of the end of the Ottoman empire. He had left Turkey for another assignment when he was besieged with letters about that article that led him to go back to Turkey and see if he got it all wrong--about that massacre. There he found the 'official version' of the event but went on to try to discover what really happened. Here is what he found, in a place in which the centuries old conflict among Turks, Armenians, and Kurds was still very much alive and bringing to life the basic conflicts in the Middle East: between statehood and religion; imperial borders and ethnicity. A fascinating book. 270 pages with bibliography. 6.4 x 9.25 inches. Penguin Press, New York, 2010.