World War I was a watershed a defining moment in Armenian history. Its effects were unprecedented in that it resulted in what no other war invasion or occupation had achieved in three thousand years of identifiable Armenian existence. This calamity was the physical elimination of the Armenian people and most of the evidence of their ever having lived on the great Armenian Plateau to which the perpetrator side soon gave the new name of Eastern Anatolia. The bearers of an impressive martial and cultural history the Armenians had also known repeated trials and tribulations waves of massacre captivity and exile but even in the darkest of times there had always been enough remaining to revive rebuild and go forward. This third volume in a series edited by Richard Hovannisian the dean of Armenian historians provides a unique fusion of the history philosophy literature art music and educational aspects of the Armenian experience. It further provides a rich storehouse of information on comparative dimensions of the Armenian genocide in relation to the Assyrian Greek and Jewish situations and beyond that paradoxes in American and French policy responses to the Armenian genocides. The volume concludes with a trio of essays concerning fundamental questions of historiography and politics that either make possible or can inhibit reconciliation of ancient truths and righting ancient wrongs. . Language: English