Why Armenia Should Be Free: Armenia's Rôle in the Present War

Written in the dying days of the Great War, this is not history but a desperate, urgent plea from a man watching his people perish. Armen Garo, an Armenian deputy in the Ottoman Parliament, recounts how his nation answered the call of the Allies, sending soldiers to fight beside Russia, France, and Britain, believing that loyalty would be rewarded with freedom. Instead, they found themselves betrayed by every power they trusted. Over a million Armenians would be dead by war's end, murdered in a genocide that Garo documents with the precision of someone who watched it happen. This book was his attempt to reach the peace conference, to make the case that Armenia had bled for the Allied cause and deserved not charity but justice. It is a political argument wrapped in grief, a wartime document that refuses to let the world look away.