When We Dead Awaken: Australia, New Zealand, and the Armenian Genocide

At the exact moment the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps landed at Gallipoli on April 25 1915, leading figures of Armenian life in the Ottoman Empire were being arrested in vast numbers. That day marked the simultaneous birth of a national myth and the beginning of a genocide. When We Dead Awaken - the first narrative history of the Armenian Genocide in decades - draws these two landmark historical events together. Through eyewitness accounts of the Anzac prisoners who witnessed the genocide, the words of soldiers who risked their lives to defend refugees, to a new examination of the Australasian involvement in the enormous international campaign for Armenian relief, and enduring discussions about the value of genocide recognition, James Robins explores the vital political implications of this unexplored, ignored history still has today.