Author:
Palak‘ean, Grigoris, -1934.
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Descriptionxli, 509 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Note:Originally published in Armenian in two volumes as Arsmenian Golgotha: Episodes from the Armenian Martyrology from Berlin to Zor, 1914-1920 (Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, 1922) and Armenian Golgotha, Volume 2: Episodes from the Armenian Martyrology from Berlin Der Zor (Paris: Imprimerie Araxes, 1959.)
Note:VOLUME I. THE LIFE OF AN EXILE : JULY 1914-APRIL 1916. -- Pt. 1. JULY-OCTOBER 1914. In Berlin before the war -- In Berlin -- Return to Constantinople from Berlin -- Pt. 2. THE FIRST DEPORTATION, APRIL 1915-FEBRUARY 1916. The general condition of the Armenians at the beginning of 1915 -- The first bad news from Cilicia : The secret messenger -- The night of Gethsemane -- Red Sunday -- Toward a place of exile : The names of the exiles in Ayash -- Life in Chankiri Armory : The names of the deportees in Chankiri -- Life of the deportees in the city -- Plan for the extinction of the Armenians in Turkey --The Armenian carnage in Ankara -- The tragic end of deportee friends in Ayash -- The tragic end of the Chankiri deportees -- The deportation and killing of Zohrab and Vartkes -- The Armenians of Chankiri in the days of horror -- The general condition of the Armenians at the beginning of 1916 -- Second arrest and imprisonment -- Departure from Chankiri to Choroum -- From Choroum to Yozgat -- From Yozgat to Boghazliyan : The skulls -- Pt. 3. THE SECOND DEPORTATION : THE CARAVAN OF DEATH TO DER ZOR, FEBRUARY-APRIL 1916. The confessions of a slayer captain -- Encountering another caravan of the condemned -- From Boghazliyan to Kayseri : The Halys River bridge and the bandits of the Ittihad -- Kayseri to Tomarza -- Tomarza to Gazbel -- Gazbel to Hajin -- Hajin to Sis -- Sis to Garzbazar -- Garzbazar to Osmaniye -- Osmaniye to Hasanbeyli and Kanle-gechid -- Hasanbeyli to Islahiye : The sweet smell of bread -- Islahiye : A field of mounds for graves -- Bad news from Der Zor -- Escape from Islahiye to Ayran -- VOLUME II. THE LIFE OF A FUGUTIVE : APRIL 1916-JANUARY 1919. -- Pt. 1. IN THE TUNNELS OF AMANOS. Escape on the way to Ayran-Baghche (vineyard) -- The remnants of the Armenians in the Amanos Mountains -- Signs of imminent new storms -- The treatment of th Armenians by the German soldiers -- The ghosts of ten thousand Armenian women in the deserts of Ras-ul-Ain -- The deportation and murder of the Armenian workers of Amanos -- Bloodshed on the way from Baghche to Marash : A German nurse goes insane -- The suffering of British prisoners of war at Kut-al-Amara -- The program of forced Islamization : Escape from Baghche to Injirli -- In the forests of Injirli : Escape from Amanos to Taurus -- Pt. 2. IN THE TUNNELS OF THE TAURUS MOUNTAINS. The self-sacrifice of the Armenian workers of the Baghdad railway -- Fragments of Armenians in the Taurus Mountains -- In the deep valley ot Tashdurmaz -- Life in Belemedik -- The deportation of patriarch Zaven Der Yeghiayan from Constantinople to Baghdad -- Legions of Armenian exiles in Konya and Bozanti -- Meeting Armenian intellectuals on the road to Belemedik -- Escape form Belemedik to Adana -- Pt. 3. IN ADANA, JANUARY 1917-SEPTEMBER 1918. The general condition of the war at the beginning of 1917 -- A mysterious patient in Adana's German hospital -- The condition of the remaining Armenians in Adana -- The curse of murdered Armenian mothers -- The natural beauty of Cilicia : The disguised vine grower -- The clerk of the office : Disappearance -- The general condition of the Armenians at the beginning of 1918 -- The Turkish army invades the Caucasus, and the Armenians at Sardarabad --The declaration of the Armenian Republic The hospital-slaughterhouse of Turkish soldiers -- The victorious British army occupies Damascus : The battle of Arara -- The national vow of the Turks to exterminate the surviving Armenians : The general massacre in Der Zor -- Escape from the land of blood -- The disguised German soldier toward Constantinople : The longing of a mother -- Armistice : The Allied Fleet victoriously enters the Turkish capital -- Did the victors come to punish, or to loot? -- The general condition of Constaninople on the eve of the armistice -- Irrevocable departure from Turkey : From Constantinople to Paris -- Glossary -- Appendix : Author's preface.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-481) and index.
