April 12, 2024
AN AMERICAN PHYSICIAN IN TURKEY 1917 1st Edition Bitlis Van Armenian Genocide
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AN AMERICAN PHYSICIAN IN TURKEY. A Narrative of Peace and in War. by Clarence D. Ussher. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston 1917 1st Edition with 339 pages and 23 illustrations. Original red cloth hard cover binding is faded and has some staining, else tight. Several pages have folded corners, else text is clean, tight and in good condition. Clarence Douglas Ussher (September 9, 1870 - September 20, 1955) was an American physician and missionary in the Van region during the Armenian Genocide, where he reported that 55,000 Armenians had been killed. In 1917 Ussher published this memoir regarding his experience in Van. It is considered one of the most detailed eyewitness accounts of the events. Ussher openly blamed the Turkish government for the systematic massacres of Armenians. His accounts of the Armenian Genocide were depicted in the 2002 film Ararat.
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