A Financial Times Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year-A landmark contribution to the study of these epochal events.--Times Literary Supplement-Brilliantly researched and written-casts a careful eye upon the ghastly events that took place in the final decades of the Ottoman empire, when its rulers decided to annihilate their Christian subjects-Hitler and the Nazis gleaned lessons from this genocide that they then applied to their own efforts to extirpate Jews.--Jacob Heilbrun, The SpectatorBetween 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region-s Christian minorities. By 1924, the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, once nearly a quarter of the population, had been reduced to 2 percent. Most historians have treated these waves as distinct, isolated events, and successive Turkish governments presented them as an unfortunate sequence of accidents. The Thirty-Year Genocide is the first account to show that all thre
