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The great fire : one American's mission to rescue victims of the 20th century's first genocide / Lou Ureneck

Publication | Library Call Number: DF845.53.I94 U74 2015
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Relates the true story of Asa Jennings, a YMCA minister from upstate New York who arrived in Smyrna (now Izmir) in 1922 to teach sports to boys, but instead found himself working tirelessly to help rescue more than 250,000 refugees during the genocide of Armenian and Greek Christians.

Format
Book
Author/Creator
Ureneck, Lou, author.
Published
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015]
©2015
Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-466) and index
Language
English
Edition
First edition
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Physical Description
xvi, 488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents
End of an empire
An innocent arrives
The Great Offensive
George Horton, poet-consul
Garabed Hatcherian
Admiral Bristol, American potentate
Washington responds
Jennings's suggestion
Theodora
An American destroyer arrives
The view from Nif
Back in Constantinople
Captain Hepburn's dilemma
Garabed Hatcherian
Noureddin Pasha
fire breaks out
"All boats over"
Morning after
Garabed Hatcherian
Oil, war, and the protection of minorities
Bristol's resistance
Halsey Powell
Theodora
Days of despair
"We are celebrating Smyrna"
Jennings and the Hand of God
Garabed Hatcherian
Washington feels pressure
Jennings negotiates with a Prime Minister
The evacuation begins
The Rhodes letter resurfaces
Revolution
British assistance
After Smyrna.
ISBN
9780062259882
0062259881
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-466) and index.

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