Review: The Armenian Genocide: A New Brand of Denial by the Turkish General Staff - by Proxy
“The Armenian Genocide: A New Brand of Denial by the Turkish General Staff - by Proxy” (With Reference to Edward J. Erickson, Ordered to Die. A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001, 265pp, $67.95) Ottoman Turkey’s significance in the overall picture of World War I and its outcome is underscored by three landmark events associated with that war. 1. The inordinate endurance of the Turkish army in the face of enormous handicaps, such as the scarcity of a host of indispensable resources, an antiquated system of roads, a wholly inadequate transportation set-up, and widespread epidemics among the recruits that nearly crippled the force structure of that army....