Author: GLOCKLER, HENRY WILFRID
Title: Interned in Turkey 1914-1918
Description: Lebanon, Sevan Press. 1969. Boards, Cloth Spine, 8vo - Over 7 3/4" -9 3/4 " Tall. Hard Cover, binding and printing error has diagonally creased pages 43 and 44 (not affecting text), also misaligning the top margin of this single leaf, else the letterpress textblock is very clean and tight; former owner's single-line ink notation on ffep; The dedication page reads: "Dedicated/To/the thousands of innocent Armenian men, women/and children of Ourfa,Turkey, who perished amid/the horrors of the infamous genocide of 1915-18." This is the genoicde that Turkey denies to this day. The author was a witness to the crime, and was himself deported from Beirut, Lebanon in 1914 and interned by the Turkish government in the Turkish interior from 1914-1918. The binding is very lightly edge-rubbed; the jacket is heavily edge-worn, wrinkled and creased, and repaired with clear tape at the base of the spine; 154p. Very Good/Good (in mylar).

Keywords: Armenian Mistreatment and Genocide, World War One, WWI, Turkish War Crimes


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