Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918 by Grigoris Balakian

On April 24, 1915, the priest Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other intellectuals and leaders of Constantinople’s Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Turkish government’s systematic attempt to eliminate the Armenian people from Turkey; it was a campaign that continued through World War I and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, by which time more than a million Armenians had been annihilated and expunged from their historic homeland. This memoir provides the insights into the political, historical, and cultural context of the Armenian genocide- the template for the subsequent mass killings that have cast a shadow across the twentieth century and beyond. This will become a classic of survivor literature. Translated by Peter Balakian with Aris Sevag.

(2009, Hardcover, 560 pages)