Reviews by Mary Whipple
Posted in 1900 - 1949, Armenia, England, Literary, 2007-09, Turkey on Jun 6th, 2009
The Armenian massacres of 1896, in which the fiancee of the protagonist was raped and then murdered before his eyes, provide the point of attack for “Rage of the Vulture.” Twelve years have passed, and the protagonist, an Englishman named Robert Markham, now married and a father, is posted to Constantinople in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire.
Posted in Armenia, Post World War I, World War I on Jun 6th, 2009
Although most Americans know that World War I began in 1914, far fewer know that while that war was being fought in Europe, a million Armenians were being killed in a long-term genocide conducted by the Turks. In a series of massacres over a period of more than twenty years, most notably between 1894 and 1915, the Armenians were forced from their land, marched across barren plains under deplorable conditions, and subjected to depredations from which death was often a merciful release. Author Judith Claire Mitchell creates a fascinating plot which brings to life the efforts by Armenians in Europe and America to address the wrongs done to them by bringing the Turkish leaders of the massacres to justice, either legal or ad hoc. The novel is fast paced and compulsive reading, and it brings attention to a subject which has only rarely been the subject of novels.
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