The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

The internationally acclaimed novel based on the heroic resistance during the Armenian genocide of 1915.

This is the story of how the people of several Armenian villages in the mountains along the coast of present-day Turkey and Syria chose not to obey the Turkish government's deportation order. Instead, they fortified a plateau on the slopes of Musa Dagh—Mount Moses—and repelled Turkish soldiers and military police during the summer of 1915 while hoping for the Allies to save them . . .

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