Accursed years : my exile and return from Der Zor, 1914-1919

Yervant Odian's Accursed Years is a remarkable account of the Armenian Genocide written by an Armenian intellectual in 1919, soon after the events in question. His survival during this period was probably due to hte fact that he avoided arrest in Constantinople on the night of April 24, 1915 by going into hiding. Odian was eventually arrested and exiled in differetn stages as far as El Bousera, pat of Der Zor. He arrived there after hundreds of thousands of Armenian deportees had been killed in the region through starvation, disease and massacre. Odian's survival and escape allowed him to tell his own story and give insights into the fate of others. Includes index. xxiii, 322 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm