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"Ara Sarafian should be commended for making a critical edition of 'The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire' available to the public. It may be seen as bad politics to exhume a million victims when the perpetrators' successors are on the threshold of the European Union, but it has been well said that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." --Eric Avebury, House of Lords
"The collection and collation of the evidence from which the Blue Book ['The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire'] was compiled had occupied most of my working time for a number of months; and, after the Blue Book had been published, I could not dismiss its contents from my mind. I was not only haunted by the victims' sufferings and by the criminals' deeds; I was exercised by the question how it could be possible for human beings to do what those perpetrators of genocide had done.
"My study [of the Armenian Genocide]... left an impression on my mind that was not effaced by the still more cold-blooded genocide, on a far larger scale, that was committed during the Second World War by the Nazi.
"Any great crime--private or public, personal or impersonal--raises a question that transcends national limits; the question goes to the heart of human nature itself. My study of the genocide that had been committed in Turkey in 1915 brought home to me the reality of Original Sin." --Arnold J. Toynbee, "Acquaintances" (1967)
Arnold Toynbee was a young historian and Foreign Office clerk who soon became a prominent historian.
Ara Sarafian is general editor of Gomidas Institute Books and coeditor of the journal "Armenian Forum."
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Book Description Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in wrappers. Edge wear. ; Uncensored Edition; 10 X 7.30 X 2 inches; 699 pages. Seller Inventory # 105502