The Forty Days of Musa Dagh - Hardback - 1934

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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is a 1934 novel by Austrian-Jewish author Franz Werfel based around an event that took place on Musa Dagh in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. The book was first published as Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh in German in November of 1933. The Forty Days of Musa Dagh achieved great international success and has been credited with awakening the world to the evidence of the persecution of the Armenians. The novel is a fictionalized account based on the real-life defense of Musa Dagh's Damlayik by Armenians who were facing systematic deportations and massacres put into effect by the Committee of Union and Progress central government.

Condition is Good. Fourth Printing, 1934. Hardback, cloth cover, no jacket. Edge wear on spine and corners, hinge cracked on the cover page, pages in good condition, handwritten name on the fly leaf.

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