ARMENIA

A detailed but sometimes lacking account of the Armenian genocide

(Ago Demirdjian, and Nabil Saleh. The Catholic World Report)

The Ottoman Empire’s genocide of more than one million Armenians during World War I was one of history’s great tragedies. The Righteous and People of Conscience of the Armenian Genocide by Gérard Dédéyan, Ago Demirdjian, and Nabil Saleh, recently translated from the French by Barbara Mellor, includes numerous inspiring examples of people moved to act during the Armenian Golgotha, but the book’s downplaying of the Christian faith of many of these humanitarians is frustrating.