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Selected Bibliography
The number o f publications discussing the subject o f "Armenia"
is legion. This is particularly true for the events o f
1915. As far as the war years 1915-1916 are concerned,
there is virtually no literature at all which presents the
"Ottoman-Turkish side" o f the issue. One exception is a
collection published in Istanbul in 1917 with the title
A spiration s et Agissem ents Revolutionnaires des Comites
Armeniern avant et apres la proclam ation de la Constitution
Ottomane, which tries to present the facts that were known
at that time, as far as this was possible given the military
situation. After Aram Andonian published his forged
"telegram s" with the forged "death orders" o f the
Ottoman minister o f the interior, there was a genuine
flood o f publications on this subject. Almost without
exception, they presented the Armenian point o f view.
The Turks, meanwhile, chose to remain silent, totally
misunderstanding the "position o f innocence". Although
the Turks can certainly be brutal in war, especially when
the war is forced upon them, they are the first to forgive
their former enemies as soon as the war is over. During
their centuries o f harmonious cooperation, the Turks had
developed a respect for the Armenians which prevented
them from seeing the absurd accusations o f "planned
extermination" as anything more than standard wartime
propaganda. The Turks simply had too much respect for
the Armenians -and too much self-respect - to take these
accusations seriously, let alone defend themselves against
them. The result was that the world public was exposed
to a totally one-sided view and now accepts the Armenian
accusations largely at face value. They overlook the fact
that the Armenians were actually at war with the Ottoman
Empire, even though they were a part o f it, and were
pushing for a permanent division o f the Ottoman Empire
and Turkey. (The Armenians themselves emphasized this
fact immediately after the war but then played it down
when it seemed more opportune to have been
"unarmed".) The following list o f the best-known and
most important books on this subject does not by any
means pretend to be exhaustive. Both points o f view are
represented - the Turkish and the Armenian. An annex
gives the titles o f some recent publications from the
Turkish side which -better late than never - present the
events as seen from the Turkish standpoint.
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Aghasse. Zeitim depuis les Origines jusqu'a
Г Insurrection de 1895. Paris, 1895
Allen, W. E. D. and Muratoff, Paul. Caucasian Battlefields. Cambridge,
1953.
Andonian, Aram. Les Memoires de Nairn Bey; Documents officiels
turcs relatifs a la deportation et an massacres des Armeniens. Paris,
1920.
The Assembly o f Turkish American Associations. Myth and Reality. A
Handbook o f Facts and Documents. Washington, 1986
Bedrosian, Robert. Armenia in Ancient and Medieval Times. New
York, 1969.
Bliss, Edwin M. Turkey and the Armenian Atrocities. Philadelphia,
1896.
Biyce, Viscount. The Treatment o f Armenians in the Ottoman Empire,
1915-1916. London, 1916.
Carzou, Jean Marie. Un genocide exemplaire. Paris, 1975. Erzen,
Afif. Eastern Anatolia and Urartians. Ankara, 1984.
Tozer, Rev. Henry Fanshawe. Turkish Armenia and Eastern Asia
Minor London, 1881.
Gurun, Kamuran. The Armenian File. The Myth o f Innocence Exposed.
K. Rustem & Bro. and Wiedenfeld & Nicolson Ltd., London,
1985.
Hamlin, Cams. My Life and Times. Boston, 1893.
Harbord, Maj. Gen. James G. Report o f the American Military’ Mission
to Armenia. Senate Doc. No. 226 (1920).
Hartunian, A. H. Neither to Laugh nor to Weep. Boston, 1968.
Hofmann, Tessa Das Verbrechen des Schweigens. Die Verhandlung
des turkischen Volkermordes an den Armeniern vor dem Stcindigen Tribunal
der Volker. Pogrom Taschenbticher 1012, Gottingen und Wien,
1985
Hovanissian, Richard G. Armenia on the R oad to Independence.
Berkeley and Los Angeles 1978.
Howard, Harry N. The Partition o f Turkey. New York. 1966.
Husepian, Marjorie. Smyrna 1922. The Destruction o f a City. London,
1972.
Katchaznouni, Hovhannes. The Tasnaks Have Nothing More To Do.
Mechitaristendrackerei; Vienna, 1923.
Katchaznouni, Hovhannes. The Armenian Revolutionary Federation
(Dashnagtzouthm) Has Nothing To Do Any More. Armenian Information
Service, New York, 1955.
Khebof, Twerdo. Journal de Guerre du 2eme Regiment d'Artillerie de
forteresse Russe d'Erzeroum, et notes d'lin officier Superieur Russe sur
les atrocites d'Erzeroum. 1919. Traduit du manuscrit original msse.
Korganof. La Participation des Armeniens a la Guerre Mondiale sur
le Front du Caucase 1914-1918. Paris, 1927.
Krikorian, Mesrop. Armenians in the Service o f the Ottoman Empire