Description:
- The fist edited volume about the Assyrian genocide
- Focusing specifically on by far under-studied and denied genocide
- Authors from different disciplines
Brief description:
David Gaunt is Professor of History at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Sodertorn University, and a member of the European Academy. He has written extensively on mass violence and genocide in Eastern Europe and in the Ottoman Empire. His Massacres, Resistors, Protectors (2006) is considered the seminal work on the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean genocide.
Review Quotes:
"This reviewer is more than impressed with the effort and care required to produce what amounts to a syllabus of cogent explorations of one of the most shameful chapters known to man...Let Them Not Return is an invaluable publication providing a great deal of information in support of what promises to be a long and arduous campaign to obtain Turkish confirmation of the genocide of its Christian minorities, particularly that of the lesser publicized Assyrians and Pontic Greeks. With its abundant notes and a rich bibliography accompanying each chapter, this book deserves to grace the shelf of every caring Assyrian." - Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies
"The book is an excellent contribution in presenting new ideas through its 12 chapters, to study the case of Sayfo by dedicated researches, especially concerning the trauma effect of the post-genocide survivors. Indeed, this is an important book and necessary to be consulted to understand various aspects concerning many themes regarding Christians in the Middle East." - Syriac Orthodox Patriarchal Journal
"This volume does not try to arrive at a conclusive evaluation. But it provides three well thought-out steps for future research in... completely unknown topic in Osman history during the First World War." - H-Soz-Kult
"With a list of top-notch contributors, this is an excellent addition to what little is currently available on this under-researched genocide. The organization of the contributions and the volume's breadth of scope are particularly impressive." - Mark Levene, University of Southampton