New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xx, 475, [1] pages. Illustrations. Map. Notes. Glossary. Selected Bibliography. Index. Black mark on bottom edge. Peter Balakian (born June 13, 1951) is an Armenian American poet, writer and academic, the Rebar Professor of Humanities at Colgate University. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2016. The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response received the 2005 Raphael Lemkin Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book and national best seller. The author offers a landmark history of the Armenian massacres of the 1890's and the genocide of 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks, and America's extraordinary response. The Turkish government implemented the first modern genocide behind the cover of World War I. In the United States, many people came together to try to save the Armenians. Courageous missionaries, diplomats, and relief workers recorded their eyewitness accounts and often risked their lives in the killing fields of Armenia. More