The much awaited third edition tells the 6,000-year history of the Armenian people going back archaeological wine making finds in caves to some say Noah’s ark landing on the sacred Armenian mountain Ararat and co-existing with Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines and even Ottomans. At one time the Armenians had a trading empire that went from India to Moscow. Then came catastrophe with the 1915 Genocide where the Ottomans wiped out 1.5 million Armenians after which there was the long road to recovery beginning in Paris and elsewhere around the world with a diaspora of 5 million people with 3 million in the homeland held captive by the Soviet Empire until its fall and subsequent immediate rise of the independent Republic of Armenia where today it seeks to take its place in the modern free world.
The History of the Armenian Speaking People is a whirlwind history from a great Persian king left unburied by his own troops to marching to the end of the known world to fighting the Romans to a standstill to serving the Byzantines to the powerful diaspora of today.
He is a great storyteller and a maverick among historians of non-fiction
The text is accessible, readable, and understandable for those curious about the Armenians and a new dimension of their history and odyssey .
Gary A. Kulhanjian, social historian
The History of the Armenian Speaking People reading
The author will discuss his new book and his disability lawsuit against the Rolling Stones on WUSB Radio January 4 at 10a.m. Est.
Origins of the Armenian spoken language