ELLEN SARKISIAN CHESNUT
This book tells the eyewitness stories, at the ground level, of the author’s mother, extended family, and acquaintances of the devastating battle of Marash in January-February 1920, one of the most brutal events within the larger genocidal period that effectively destroyed Armenian life in Turkey.
The Battle of Marash, one of the last major campaigns in the Turkish “war of independence” between 1919 and 1923, subjected both Armenians and other Christian peoples to unimaginable levels of hatred, brutality, violence, and psychological trauma by Turks and Kurds, with 12,000 victims among Armenian civilians alone. The survivors of this battle are finally given voice by the author who has painstakingly archived, translated, and collated into cohesive narrative their stories.
