Leo T. reviewed Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide on + 1775 more book reviews
I heard a good radio interview of the author recently while he was flogging his book. This is not an entirely scholarly book, but Mr. Bogosian has make his living with his pen for many years, including publishing many books on various subjects. The index is adequate and there is a considerable bibliography of books and journal articles, but he seems not to have gone to materials in Arabic, Armenian, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Russian, etc.
I obtained the book from the LA County Library and read only a part of it, my interest being finding a chapter that I could use to in a reading classroom situation where interested students would read of this theater of WWI. As Mr. Bogosian made clear in his radio interview, he is carrying forward the campaign against the Republic of Turkey for the genocide of the Armendians and others during the early 20th C., in this book lauding the efforts of S. Tehlirian and his crew to successfully obtain revenge on Talas Pasha (in 1920s Berlin) for the bloody massacres of the CUP.
I have long felt that this was a time when various nationalities were seeking independence from the empires of the czar, the sultan, Emperor Franz Josef, etc. and thus a civil war. I will use pages 102-121 to show that nearly lawless bands of many nationalities were abroad in the land, seeking independence.
Note that the Treaaty of Mudros on 30 October 1918 took the Ottoman Empire out of WWI, the Treaty of Sevres of 1930 would have apportioned most of the Empire among various nationalities including Kurds and was rejected, the French and British holding not much more than Constantinople, and the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923 marks the beginning of the Republic of Turkey.
I obtained the book from the LA County Library and read only a part of it, my interest being finding a chapter that I could use to in a reading classroom situation where interested students would read of this theater of WWI. As Mr. Bogosian made clear in his radio interview, he is carrying forward the campaign against the Republic of Turkey for the genocide of the Armendians and others during the early 20th C., in this book lauding the efforts of S. Tehlirian and his crew to successfully obtain revenge on Talas Pasha (in 1920s Berlin) for the bloody massacres of the CUP.
I have long felt that this was a time when various nationalities were seeking independence from the empires of the czar, the sultan, Emperor Franz Josef, etc. and thus a civil war. I will use pages 102-121 to show that nearly lawless bands of many nationalities were abroad in the land, seeking independence.
Note that the Treaaty of Mudros on 30 October 1918 took the Ottoman Empire out of WWI, the Treaty of Sevres of 1930 would have apportioned most of the Empire among various nationalities including Kurds and was rejected, the French and British holding not much more than Constantinople, and the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923 marks the beginning of the Republic of Turkey.
