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Armenia

    Thomas de Waal recommends the best Memoirs of the Armenian Genocide

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    Thomas de Waal recommends the best Memoirs of the Armenian Genocide - My Grandmother by Fethiye Cetin

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    My Grandmother
    by Fethiye Cetin

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    Thomas de Waal recommends the best Memoirs of the Armenian Genocide - Four Years in the Mountains of Kurdistan by Aram Haigaz

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    Four Years in the Mountains of Kurdistan
    by Aram Haigaz

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    Thomas de Waal recommends the best Memoirs of the Armenian Genocide - Burning Orchards by Gurgen Mahari

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    Burning Orchards
    by Gurgen Mahari

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    Thomas de Waal recommends the best Memoirs of the Armenian Genocide - Song of America by George M. Mardikian

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    Song of America
    by George M. Mardikian

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    Thomas de Waal recommends the best Memoirs of the Armenian Genocide - I Ask You, Ladies and Gentlemen by Leon Surmelian

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    I Ask You, Ladies and Gentlemen
    by Leon Surmelian

Thomas de Waal recommends the best Memoirs of the Armenian Genocide

More than 100 years after the Armenian genocide, author Tom de Waal chooses books that sidestep the politics and bring us back to the human story. He picks the best memoirs of the Armenian genocide.

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