More than a million Armenians perished between 1915 and 1916; victims of a policy of deportation and massacres. This is one of the worst genocides of the twentieth century, one of the most controversial as well, always denied by Turkey. To understand the origin, nature and issues of the Armenian Genocide, Laurence Jourdan endeavoured to trace the massacres committed against the Armenians during the previous decades and analyse the geopolitical context that preceded and followed the course of genocide. Dewey: 956.6 FRE.