{"product_id":"the-forty-days-of-musa-dagh","title":"The Forty Days of Musa Dagh","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis stirring  poignant novel  based on real historical events that made of actual people true heroes  unfolds the tragedy that befell the Armenian people in the dark year of 1915. The Great War is raging through Europe  and in the ancient  mountainous lands southwest of the Caspian Sea the Turks have begun systematically to exterminate their Christian subjects. Unable to deny his birthright or his people  one man  Gabriel Bagradianborn an Armenian  educated in Paris  married to a Frenchwoman  and an officer doing his duty as a Turkish subject in the Ottoman armywill strive to resist death at the hands of his blood enemy by leading 5 000 Armenian villagers to the top of Musa Dagh  the mountain of Moses. There  for forty days  in the face of almost certain death  they will suffer the siege of a Turkish army hell-bent on genocide. A passionate warning against the dangers of racism and scapegoating  and prefiguring the ethnic horrors of World War II  this important novel from the early 1930s remains the only significant treatment  in fiction or nonfiction  of the first genocide in the twentieth centurys long series of inhumanities. It also continues to be today what the New York Times deemed it in 1933a true and thrilling novel ... a story which must rouse the emotions of all human beings. Musa Dagh gives us a lasting sense of participation in a stirring episode of history.... Magnificent.The New York Times Book Review A novel full of the breath  the flesh and blood and bone and spirit of life.Saturday Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44665105743925,"sku":"ByrdShop_0786711388","price":74.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780786711383.jpg?v=1770466968","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-forty-days-of-musa-dagh","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}