The gentle American / Ismini Lamb, Christopher J. Lamb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamb, Ismini, author.

Lamb, Christopher J. (Christopher Jon), 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horton, George, 1860-1942.

Horton, George.

Diplomats.

Diplomats--United States--Biography.

United States--Foreign relations--Turkey.

United States.

Turkey--Foreign relations--United States.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (560 pages)

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, New Jersey : Gorgias Press LLC, [2022]

Summary:

"How many lives can one man save? Never enough, Horton realized. As his ship backed away from Smyrna's wharf, he could better see the helpless, teeming crowd on the waterfront trapped between the sea and a raging inferno. He was not consoled by rescuing his shipload of refugees, nor by the many other Christian, Jewish, and Muslim lives he had saved during his service as American consul. His focus was on the people before him threatened with fire, rape, and massacre. Their persecution, he later said, made him ashamed he "belonged to the human race." Helping them would not be easy, however. His superiors were blocking humanitarian aid and covering up atrocities with fake news and disinformation to win Turkish approval for American access to oil. When Horton decried their duplicity and hard-heartedness, they conspired to destroy his reputation. Undaunted, Horton pursued his cause until it went to the President and then Congress for decisions that would set the course for America's emergence as a world power. At stake was the outcome of WWI, the stability and liberality of the Middle East, and the likelihood of more genocide"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Epigraph

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Preface

Key Figures in the Biography

Abbreviations and Foreign (or Antiquated) Terms

Towns Mentioned in the Biography (1922 and today)

Prologue: The Saddest Man in Smyrna

Chapter One: Smyrna, The Mecca of His Ambitions

Chapter Two: The Great War Comes to Smyrna

Chapter Three: George, Germans, and Genocide

Chapter Four: On the Frontlines in Salonica

Chapter Five: The Real King of Smyrna

Chapter Six: The War of Words with Bristol

Chapter Seven: "Normalcy" During Crisis

Chapter Eight: Prelude to Catastrophe

Chapter Nine: Smyrna's Demise, The Greeks Leave

Chapter Ten: Smyrna's Demise, The Turks Arrive

Chapter Eleven: Remonstration in Athens

Chapter Twelve: Revelation in Washington

Chapter Thirteen: The Vote

Epilogue: A Life Worth Living

Acknowledgements

Selected Bibliography: George Horton Biography

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Lamb, Ismini The Gentle American

ISBN:

9781463244507

1463244509

OCLC:

1338020129