The Armenian legionnaires : sacrifice and betrayal in World War I / Susan Paul Pattie ; with a chapter by Varak Ketsemanian

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pattie, Susan Paul, author.

Contributor:

Ketsemanian, Varak, contributor.

Series:

Middle East (Series : Bloomsbury Publishing)

Middle East

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France. Armée. Légion étrangère.

France.

Haykakan Lēgēon--History.

Haykakan Lēgēon.

World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Participation, Armenian.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Middle East.

Armenia--History--Revolution, 1917-1920.

Armenia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 266 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

System Details:

text file

HTML

PDF

Summary:

"Following the devastation resulting from the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire beginning in 1915, the survivors of the massacres were dispersed across the Middle East, Europe and North and South America. Not content with watching World War I silently from the sidelines, a large number of Armenian volunteers joined the Legion d'Orient. They were trained in Cyprus and fought courageously in Palestine and Cilicia alongside Allied commander General Allenby, eventually playing a crucial role in defeating German and Ottoman forces in Palestine at the Battle of Arara in September 1918. The Armenian Legionnaires signed up on the understanding that they would be fighting in Syria and Turkey, and, should the Allies be successful, they would be part of an occupying army in their old homelands, laying the foundation for a self-governing Armenian state. Susan Paul Pattie describes the motivations and dreams of the Armenian Legionnaires and their ultimate betrayal as the French and the British shifted priorities, leaving their ancestral Armenian homelands to the emerging Republic of Turkey. Complete with eyewitness accounts, letters and photographs, this book provides an insight into relations between the Great Powers through the lens of a small, vulnerable people caught in a war that was not their own, but which had already destroyed their known world."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Note on the Contents of The Armenian Legionnaires

Timeline

Chapter 1. Armenians in a World at War

Chapter 2. The Armenian Legion at the Crossroads of Colonial Politics / Varak Ketsemanian

Chapter 3. Recruitment and the Voyage

Chapter 4. Training in Cyprus

Chapter 5. Palestine and Preparation for Battle

Chapter 6. The Battle of Arara

Chapter 7. The Next Stages: Beirut

Chapter 8. To Cilicia, the "Promised Land"

Chapter 9. Repatriation and Increasing Uncertainties

Chapter 10. The Transfer of Power in Marash

Chapter 11. The Battles of Marash or "The Marash Affair"

Chapter 12. The Aftermath

Epilogue

Appendices

Notes -Bibliography

Glossary

List of Illustrations

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350988460

1350988464

9781838609306

183860930X

OCLC:

1114484013