The great fire : one American's mission to rescue victims of the 20th century's first genocide /
Relates the true story of Asa Jennings, a YMCA minister from upstate New York who arrived in Smyrna (now Izmir) in 1922 to teach sports to boys, but instead found himself working tirelessly to help rescue more than 250,000 refugees during the genocide of Armenian and Greek Christians.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Relates the true story of Asa Jennings, a YMCA minister from upstate New York who arrived in Smyrna (now Izmir) in 1922 to teach sports to boys, but instead found himself working tirelessly to help rescue more than 250,000 refugees during the genocide of Armenian and Greek Christians. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [399]-466) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780062259882 : 0062259881 |