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GENDARME by Mark T. Mustian
With the one hundredth anniversary of the Armenian deportations only a few years away, author Mark Mustian has set himself a daunting task: to follow his character’s footsteps and to serve as his own gendarme, a guide in the wilderness. For the most part, he succeeds admirably.
As Mr. Mustian writes in the epilogue, “Genocide perhaps represents the ugliest of human deeds, the mass killing of often defenseless fellow beings…Saying it didn’t happen is a mere recipe for recurrence.â€
September 2, 2010
Tags: 1910s, Historical, War Story Posted in: Book Club Choice, Real Event Fiction, Turkey, War, World Literature 
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