Bleeding Armenia: Its history and horrors under the curse of Islam

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Bleeding Armenia: Its history and horrors under the curse of Islam

by Augustus Warner Williams, M. Smbat Gabrielean

EN·~12 hours·23 chapters

Chapters

23 total

PREFACE.

5:58

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

1:32

INTRODUCTION.

7:14

BLEEDING ARMENIA. - CHAPTER I. - EARLY HISTORY OF ARMENIA.

34:17

CHAPTER II. - THE RISE OF ISLAM.

44:00

CHAPTER III. - THE STORY OF THE FIRST CRUSADE.

47:22

CHAPTER IV. - THE GREAT TARTAR INVASIONS.

45:13

CHAPTER V. - THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE.

36:37

CHAPTER VI. - THE BULGARIAN MASSACRE.

36:51

CHAPTER VII. - THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR.

43:38
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Drawing the reader into a millennium‑long saga, the work traces Armenia’s early adoption of Christianity, its strategic location between empires, and how successive invasions turned the highlands into a crossroads of faith and war. The author sketches the emergence of a new religious order that, in his view, intensified the suffering of Christian communities, describing the brutality endured without resorting to sensationalism. By situating these tragedies within the broader currents of Eastern politics, the narrative shows how geography and ideology combined to shape a relentless cycle of persecution.

In the opening chapters the book turns to the nineteenth‑century tug‑of‑war between Britain, Russia and the Ottoman Porte, exposing the diplomatic compromises that often ignored Armenian pleas. It then brings the reader to the present emergency, recounting the staggering loss of life and the desperate need for relief as famine and violence grip the population. The author concludes with a sober appeal for international moral responsibility, urging listeners to understand the historical roots before acting to alleviate the ongoing crisis.

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en

Duration

~12 hours (696K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

Aug 1, 2015

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the authors

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Augustus Warner Williams

1844–1920

A late-19th-century religious writer best remembered for books on revivalist Dwight L. Moody and on the Armenian crisis, he wrote with urgency and a clear sense of mission. His surviving works show a preacherly voice shaped by faith, reform, and the public controversies of his day.

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M. Smbat Gabrielean

M. Smbat Gabrielean

1856–1919

Best remembered for helping bring the Armenian crisis before English-speaking readers, this Armenian writer and activist co-authored a stark early account of persecution and mass suffering under Ottoman rule.

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