The great fire: one American's mission to rescue victims of the 20th century's first genocide
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The harrowing story of a Methodist Minister and a principled American naval officer who helped rescue more than 250,000 refugees during the genocide of Armenian and Greek Christians-a tale of bravery, morality, and politics, published to coincide with the genocide's centennial. The year was 1922: World War I had just come to a close, the Ottoman Empire was in decline, and Asa Jennings, a YMCA worker from upstate New York, had just arrived in the quiet coastal city of Smyrna to teach sports to boys. Several hundred miles to the east in Turkey's interior, tensions between Greeks and Turks had boiled over into deadly violence. Mustapha Kemal, now known as Ataturk, and his Muslim army soon advanced into Smyrna, a Christian city, where a half a million terrified Greek and Armenian refugees had fled in a desperate attempt to escape his troops. Turkish soldiers proceeded to burn the city and rape and kill countless Christian refugees. Unwilling to leave with the other American civilians and determined to get Armenians and Greeks out of the doomed city, Jennings worked tirelessly to feed and transport the thousands of people gathered at the city's Quay. With the help of the brilliant naval officer and Kentucky gentleman Halsey Powell, and a handful of others, Jennings commandeered a fleet of unoccupied Greek ships and was able to evacuate a quarter million innocent people-an amazing humanitarian act that has been lost to history, until now. Before the horrible events in Turkey were complete, Jennings had helped rescue a million people. By turns harrowing and inspiring, The Great Fire uses eyewitness accounts, documents, and survivor narratives to bring this episode-extraordinary for its brutality as well as its heroism-to life.
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Subjects
Armenians
Armenians -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
Electronic books
Europe
Greco-Turkish War, 1921-1922
Greco-Turkish War, 1921-1922 -- Refugees -- Turkey -- İzmir
Greece
Greeks
Greeks -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
History
History, Modern
Jennings, Asa Kent
Jennings, Asa Kent, -- 1877-1933
Massacres
Massacres -- Turkey -- İzmir
Military
Refugees
Twentieth century
World War, 1914-1918
İzmir (Turkey) -- History -- 20th century
Armenians -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
Electronic books
Europe
Greco-Turkish War, 1921-1922
Greco-Turkish War, 1921-1922 -- Refugees -- Turkey -- İzmir
Greece
Greeks
Greeks -- Turkey -- History -- 20th century
History
History, Modern
Jennings, Asa Kent
Jennings, Asa Kent, -- 1877-1933
Massacres
Massacres -- Turkey -- İzmir
Military
Refugees
Twentieth century
World War, 1914-1918
İzmir (Turkey) -- History -- 20th century
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Electronic books
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Greco-Turkish War, 1921-1922 -- Refugees -- Turkey -- İzmir
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İzmir (Turkey) -- History -- 20th century
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The great fire : one American's mission to rescue victims of the 20th century's first genocide
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The Great Fire : One American's Mission to Rescue Victims of the 20th Century's First Genocide [electronic resource] / Lou Ureneck
The great fire : one American's mission to rescue victims of the 20th century's first genocide / Lou Ureneck
The great fire : one American's mission to rescue victims of the 20th century's first genocide / Lou Ureneck
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one American's mission to rescue victims of the 20th century's first genocide
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Electronic books
Greco-Turkish War, 1921-1922
Greeks
History
History, Modern
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Massacres
Military
Refugees
Twentieth century
World War, 1914-1918
Electronic books
Greco-Turkish War, 1921-1922
Greeks
History
History, Modern
Jennings, Asa Kent
Massacres
Military
Refugees
Twentieth century
World War, 1914-1918
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