Remembering Genocide

The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response, by Peter Balakian (HarperCollins, 496 pp., $26.95)

The fate of the Armenian people has been as cruel as any. Between 1890 and 1915, in a series of increasingly bloody convulsions, the Ottoman Turks came close to exterminating the Armenians then in their empire. The Turks resorted to every brutality, including death marches and deportation, at the same time robbing their victims of everything. A few hundred thousand Armenians survived in exile, but somewhere in the order of 1.5 million were murdered. This attempted genocide introduced the 20th century of Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler.

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David Pryce-Jones

David Pryce-Jones (1936–2025) was a British author and commentator and served as a senior editor of National Review.

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The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response, by Peter Balakian (HarperCollins, 496 pp., $26.95)

The fate of the Armenian people has been as cruel as any. Between 1890 and 1915, in a series of increasingly bloody convulsions, the Ottoman Turks came close to exterminating the Armenians then in their empire. The Turks resorted to every brutality, including death marches and deportation, at the same time robbing their victims of everything. A few hundred thousand Armenians survived in exile, but somewhere in the order of 1.5 million were murdered. This attempted genocide introduced the 20th century of Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler.