Armenia, Australia & the Great War / Vicken Babkenian & Peter Stanley.
Publication details: Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2016.Description: xii, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits, photographs ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781742233994 :
- Armenia, Australia and the Great War [Other title]
- Armenian massacres (1915-1923)
- World War (1914-1918)
- 1914 - 1923
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Australia
- Humanitarian assistance, Australian
- Military participation -- Australian
- Armenian massacres survivors
- Armenians
- Atrocities
- Armenian massacres, 1915-1923
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Atrocities -- Turkey
- Armenian massacres survivors -- Australia
- Humanitarian assistance, Australian
- Armenians -- Australia -- History
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Australian
- Australia
- Turkey
- Australian
- 956.620154 23
- DS195.5 .B33 2016
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 956.62 BAB | Available | 064667 |
"For the Anzacs and their comrades, 25 April was the beginning of an eight-month ordeal, a campaign that would see the deaths of 40,000 invaders and more than twice as many defenders. It would end in a defeat extolled as the making of the Anzac nations and an Ottoman victory that gave Turkey a leader who created the Turkish nation. One of the ways we tell this story is by highlighting Australians who became part of the epic of the Middle East during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: ?Plevna? Ryan, Charles Bean, Thomas White, Stanley Savige, Isobel Hutton, Cecilia John, James Cresswell, Edith Glanville and many others. This book tells the story of how Australians and Armenians came together, during the Great War and in the decades that followed. That story is now a part of Australia?s history."--Prologue.
Includes bibliographical references (page 289-297) and index.
PROLOGUE Saturday, 24 April 1915 -- CHAPTER 1 From Ararat to Ballarat -- CHAPTER 2 The 'Armenian question' -- CHAPTER 3 The first massacres, 1894-96 -- CHAPTER 4 Murder of a nation -- CHAPTER 5 Deportation and death -- CHAPTER 6 Anzacs and Armenians -- CHAPTER 7 Anzac prisoner of war witnesses -- CHAPTER 8 Australians and the Armenian massacres of 1915 -- CHAPTER 9 Friends of Armenia -- CHAPTER 10 Victory brings relief -- CHAPTER 11 From the armistice to Versailles -- CHAPTER 12 Relief -- CHAPTER 13 Smyrna and Chanak -- CHAPTER 14 Loyal Wirt's mission -- CHAPTER 15 James Cresswell's journey -- CHAPTER 16 Edith Glanville and Armenian relief -- CHAPTER 17 Australian women and the League of Nations -- CHAPTER 18 Armenia and the new Turkey -- CHAPTER 19 Orphans and emigrants -- EPILOGUE Friends tell the truth.
Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide massacres. 24 April 1915 marks the beginning of two great epics of the First World War. It was the day the allied invasion forces set out for Gallipoli; and it marked the beginning of what became the Genocide of the Ottoman Empire's Armenians. For the first time, this book tells the powerful, and until now neglected, story of how Australian humanitarians helped people they had barely heard of and never met, amid one of the twentieth century's most terrible human calamities. With 50 000 Armenian- Australians sharing direct family links with the Genocide, this has become truly an Australian story.
