Initially published in French under the title "Operation
Nemesis, "this revealing work is now available to the
English-speaking public for the first time. It ranks as a major
revision in the historic study of the Armenian resistance to the
Ottoman genocide of Armenians.
"Operation Nemesis "is a study of the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation (the Tashnak Party) and the individuals responsible for
the execution of Turkish leaders. Until Derogy's book, it had been
assumed that the assassins were acting out of personal and
emotional motives. But through an amazing amount of detective work,
it becomes clear that they were in fact part of a disciplined
effort to seek retribution for historic crimes against the Armenian
people.
The work richly details Turkish plans for the liquidation of the
Armenian people, the individuals selected to liquidate the
genocidists, and above all, and most complex, to document for the
first time the role of the organized Armenian political opposition
to Turkish rule. In doing so, Derogy brings to light the relation
between the legal party and its extra-legal arm; the mechanisms
needed to implement the daring plan of assassination; and the
special postwar circumstances in which the Armenian nation found
itself - torn asunder by a Turkish-Soviet detente in which the
independence of Armenia became the sacrificial pawn.
Derogy worked closely with scholars around the world, and
interviewed firsthand remaining survivors who had direct contact
with the events described. His is a detective story of the first
rank, no less than a piece of historical reconstruction with
obvious portent for current Armenian efforts to recapture political
legitimacy and personal pride.
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