Dedication
Author's Note
Map 1: The Ottoman Empire in 1914
Map 2: Turkey in 2014
Introduction: Requiem in Diyarbakir
Chapter 1: The Catastrophe
Chapter 2: The History
Chapter 3: From Van to Lausanne
Chapter 4: Aspects of Forgetting
Chapter 5: Post-War Politics
Chapter 6: Awakening
Chapter 7: Assailing Turkey
Chapter 8: A Turkish Thaw
Chapter 9: Independent Armenia
Chapter 10: The Protocols
Chapter 11: Hidden Histories in Diyarbakir
Chapter 12: Two Memorials in Istanbul
Endnotes
Thomas de Waal is a writer and scholar on the Caucasus and Black Sea region and currently Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author of three books, including The Caucasus: An Introduction. Previously, de Waal worked as a newspaper and radio journalist in London and Moscow.
"This magnificent book is the ideal introduction to a difficult
subject. Historically rigorous but also full of compassion, it will
educate the expert as well as the curious beginner. Highly
recommended for Turks, Armenians, and everyone else."--Stephen
Kinzer, author of Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
"Finely researched and elegantly written, Tom de Waal's historical
travelogue is an empathetic guide to how Armenians and Turks can
ease the century of pain and conflict that succeeded the genocidal
Ottoman destruction of the Armenian presence in Anatolia in
1915."--Hugh Pope, author of Turkey Unveiled: a History of Modern
Turkey
"Great Catastrophe is a frank, honest, humane effort to understand
the events surrounding the Armenian Genocide and its aftermath.
Thomas de Waal writes with empathy and respect for the various
contending narratives while avoiding an equivocating 'balance' that
dishonors the events and the victims themselves. Meticulously
researched and scrupulously fair, it attempts to comprehend and
recount for a broad audience the complexity and pain of the
MedZ
Yeghern in the hope that average Turks and Armenians might continue
the process of recognition, repentance and reconciliation that will
allow them both to heal and be redeemed."--Michael Lemmon, Former
U.S.
Ambassador to Armenia
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