Armenian Virtual Library

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Please post a link and, if possible, a short description of any online book that is of interest to Armenians. Thanks.

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http://www.armenianhouse.org/barton/barton-en.html

CLARA BARTON

1821 - 1912
Barton, Clarissa Harlowe (Clara Barton), philanthropist, founder of the American Red Cross Society. During the Armenian massacres of 1896 she sailed to Turkey with five assistants and actively took part in the relief effort


America's relief expedition to Asia Minor under the Red Cross
Journal Publishing Company, Meriden, Conn. 1896

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Re: Armenian Virtual Library

http://www.armenianhouse.org/bliss/edwin-munsell-bliss.html

Rev. EDWIN MUNSELL BLISS

Turkey and the Armenian Atrocities
Edgewood Publishing Company, 1896

Until now this book is considered to be the most accurate and full description of the Hamidian massacres of 1894-1896 by a Western traveler.

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Re: Armenian Virtual Library

http://www.armenianhouse.org/gibbons/gibbons-helen-davenport.html

HELEN DAVENPORT GIBBONS

1882 – 1960

An American journalist, author.

In 1909 the Gibbons family witnessed the Armenian massacres in Tarsus, Turkey. Later (in 1917) Helen Gibbons wrote a book called “The Red Rugs of Tarsus”—a compilation of her letters describing those events...

THE RED RUGS OF TARSUS
A Woman’s Record of the Armenian Massacre of 1909
New York: The Century Co., 1917
Published, April, 1917

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Re: Armenian Virtual Library

http://www.armenianhouse.org/harbord/james-harbord.html

JAMES G. HARBORD

(1866 – 1947)


Conditions in the Near East: Report of the American Military Mission to Armenia
by Maj. General James G. Harbord
( Senate Document No. 266, 66th Congress, 2d Session. )
Washington. Government Printing Office, 1920.

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Re: Armenian Virtual Library

http://www.armenianhouse.org/harris/harris.html

J. RENDEL HARRIS, HELEN B. HARRIS

Letters from Armenia
London, James Nisbet & Co., Limited, 1897.

The book was published in 1897 and contained eyewitness accounts by British missionaries about the Hamidian massacres of 1896. Special thanks to Aram Arkun and Irina Minasyan for their help in publishing this rare book on the Internet.

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http://www.armenianhouse.org/koryun/koryun-en.html

Koryun

Koryun is an Armenian scholar of the 5-th century, St. Mesrop’s student and biographer, one of the translators of the Bible into the Armenian language.
He wrote "The Life of Mashtotz" - the story of the life and death of the St. Mashtots.

The Life of Mashtots
The Story of the Life and Death of the Blessed Man St. Mashtots Vardapet Our Translator by His Pupil, Koriun Vardapet

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http://www.armenianhouse.org/villari/luigi-villari.html

LUIGI VILLARI

(1876 – 1959)

An Italian historian, traveler and diplomat. Author of number of books including Russia under the Great Shadow; Italian Foreign Policy under Mussolini; The Liberation of Italy, 1943-1947; etc.


Fire and Sword in the Caucasus
London, T. F. Unwin, 1906.

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Re: Armenian Virtual Library

http://www.armenianhouse.org/wegner/wegner-en.html

ARMIN WEGNER

1886-1978

German poet and anti-fascist writer.

In April, 1915 as a member of German Sanitary Corpse he was sent to Ottoman Turkey, where he witnessed the genocide of Armenians in Turkey. He took photographs of the tragic events some of which he later managed to send to Germany and the United States.


The Trial of Talaat Pasha (also in Armenian)

English translation of the original proceedings of Soghomon Tehlirian trial, first published in German in 1921 (Berlin) under the title Der Process Talaat Pascha.

The original publication was published with a foreword by Armin T. Wegner, which unfortunately was not included in the English translation. Electronic version is provided by Raffi Kojian, Cilicia.com

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Re: Armenian Virtual Library

http://hayeren.hayastan.com/lit.html

Tons of Armenian literature and poetry.