“The” Forty Days of Musa Dagh

Download or read book “The” Forty Days of Musa Dagh written by Franz Werfel and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical novel "based on true events that took place in 1915, during the second year of World War I and at the beginning of the Armenian Genocide. The novel focuses on the self-defense by a small community of Armenians living near Musa Dagh, a mountain in Hatay Province in the Ottoman Empire-now part of southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast-as well the events in Istanbul and provincial capitals, where the Young Turk government orchestrated the deportations, concentration camps and massacres of the empire's Armenian citizens ... the facts and scope of the Armenian Genocide were little known until Werfel's novel, which entailed voluminous research and is generally accepted as based on historical events."--Wikipedia