THE BLUE BOOK

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The latest buzz is about the so called Blue Book by Viscount Bryce, the launching of the furkish translation;

http://www.reporter.am/go/article/2009-07-...l-is-challenged

The Blue Book;

http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/1915/bryce/a00tc.htm

Here we will see where Franz Werfel gathered the material for his novel. Tetimony by Rev. Andreasian. Come to think of it, I had already posted it here, but as above I did not make the connection to the Blue Book; http://hyeforum.com/index.php?showtopic=16449&hl=werfel

http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/1915/bryce/a15.htm

PS. I have had the book for quite sometime but I could not make the connection to the “Blue Book”, published in London 1916. Judging from the age of myy copy it is probably from the first edition. Come to think of it, the book cover is BLUE.

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Add- In the book, on page 522 there is a footnote by the editor where it says that Rev. Anreasian’s account is most probably the correct one that the saga began on July 13, not July 30, and that the rescue happened on Sep. 10th, that the Sep. 12 date given is in fact their arrival at Port Said, Egypt. According to which the saga lasted 53 days. (Not that fabled number 40).

Edited July 3, 2009 by ArpA

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Մէջբերում.

Travellers who have been to Southern Italy tell us that the villages near Naples very much resemble ours. The broad, rough back of Mousa Dagh (i.e., Mount Moses), known in Arabic as Jibal-al-Ahmar, rises up eastward behind us. Every gorge and crag of our beloved mountain is known, to our boys and men.

Օհան, տես վերեւ ուր Պատ. Անդրեասեանը ասէ թէ Արաբները այդ Լեռը կոչէին Jibal**(Jabal) Al Ahmar, Red Mountian/Կարմիր լեռ: Իրաւ է?

**Jibal is the plural of jabal, just as the town of Jibeil in Lebanon.

Edited July 3, 2009 by ArpA