Left Alone to Survive: Dreams of Independent Homeland Crushed with Abandonment of Marash, Turkey by Allied Powers
Author Ellen Chesnut releases new book.
ALAMEDA, Calif., Dec. 18, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Now residing in Alameda, California, author Ellen Sarkisian Chesnut's second non-fiction book: We Armenians Survived! Battle of Marash 1920 is available for purchase at the Amazon Kindle Store on 12/12/2019. The book consists of eye-witness accounts of civilians caught between the opposing forces of Turkish combatants against the French army.
"I knew my mother's people, the Shamlians, Topalians and Berberians of Marash, Turkey lost relatives to heartless torture before being summarily killed but luckily they survived as did an adolescent, Lydia Bagdikian, not a family member, whose memoir is featured in the book."
Chesnut first learned of her family's experiences during the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923 when she was an adolescent. She always wanted to let readers of history know the truth of what happened. Chesnut succeeded in this with the publication, to overwhelmingly positive reviews, of her first book about her father published in 2014: Deli Sarkis: The Scars He Carried.
Coincidentally, the United States House of Representatives on Tuesday 10/29/2019, overwhelmingly passed legislation (RES 296) by a 405-to-11 vote officially designating the 1915 mass killings of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire as a genocide.
Readers can purchase Chesnut's book at the Amazon Kindle Store on 12/12/2019 and can learn more about Chesnut on her website: http://ellensarkisianchesnut.com/.
SOURCE Ellen Chesnut
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