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The Burning Tigris : The Armenian Genocide and America's Response
by Balakian, Peter
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New condition/As New dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0060198400
- ISBN 13
- 9780060198404
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About This Item
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2003. As New condition in bright, shiny As New Dust Jacket. NOT price clipped ($26.95).No chips. No tears. No creases. No rubbing. Not a book club edition. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. Fresh and crisp, apparently never read. With maps and 16 page section of illustrations. Glossary. Chapter notes. Selected bibliography. Index. "First Edition" is so stated, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. A groundbreaking history. Brown spine / red boards. From the Dust Jacket: "A history of international human rights and forgotten heroes... a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. As New condition/As New dust jacket. 8vo. xx, 475pp. .
Synopsis
The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response presents a narrative of the massacres of the Armenians during the 1890s and genocide in 1915 at the responsibility of the Ottoman government. Using archival documents and first-person accounts, Peter Balakian shows the history of how the Young Turks were involved in the Armenian Genocide. The book received the 2005 Raphael Lemkin Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book and New York Times and national best seller.
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- Title
- The Burning Tigris : The Armenian Genocide and America's Response
- Author
- Balakian, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060198400
- ISBN 13
- 9780060198404
- Publisher
- Harper Collins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 8vo. xx, 475pp.
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