Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks, and a century of genocideVICKEN CHETERIAN Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the shadow of genocideTHOMAS DE WAAL“They can live in the desert but nowhere else”: a history of the Armenian genocide  RONALD GRIGOR SUNY On 24 April 1915, the very day before the allied landings at Gallipoli, some 250 Armenians were arrested in Constantinople. Before long many of them were dead, early victims of a massacre carried out by agents of the failing Ottoman Empire over the coming years, which was to become known as the Armenian genocide.The story of this tragedy can be told in three phases, dealt with in different ways in the books under review. The events of 1915 were the climax to a long struggle for justice and reform, with the Armenian people