Arshavir Shiragian’s The Legacy: Memoirs of an Armenian Patriot is now available for $3.99 on the Kindle, iTunes and Google Play stores
WATERTOWN, Mass.—The Hairenik Association has republished Arshavir Shiragian’s The Legacy: Memoirs of an Armenian Patriot as an e-Book. The Legacy can be downloaded for $3.99 on the Kindle, iTunes and Google Play stores (search for “Arshavir”). The book chronicles the extraordinary story of Arshavir Shiragian who embarked on an international man hunt to track down and assassinate the Turkish masterminds of the Armenian Genocide.
During World War I, the Ottoman Empire undertook a systematic extermination of its Armenian subjects from their historic homeland. Several of the key perpetrators fled to Europe as 1.5 million Armenians lay dead.
In The Legacy, Shiragian recounts how he located and assassinated the men responsible for this crime against humanity. He describes how he tracked down and killed the Grand Vizier, Sayid Halim Pasha, in Rome. A few months later, Shiragian, together with Aram Yerganian, located and shot dead Jemal Azmi Pasha, the governor-general of Trebizond, and Dr. Behaeddin Shakir Bey, the mastermind of the Armenian Genocide.
Arshavir’s daughter, Sonia Shiragian, who completed the translation of the book in 1976 noted “It is important that authentic histories of all people be taught so that lies can never take over and distort reality and so that we know who we are and where we came from, in an effort to understand ourselves and not let history repeat itself.”
The book can be purchased via the following links:
Amazon Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/The-Legacy-Memoirs-Armenian-Patriot-ebook/dp/B00G9QZBGM
Apple iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/dk/book/arshavir-shiragian-legacy/id734978971?mt=11
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Arshavir_Shiragian_Arshavir_Shiragian_The_Legacy?id=WQG-AQAAQBAJ&hl=en
Thank you Hairenik Association for taking charge and bringing this oublication to the Armenian Americans and the world. As the famous poster from that era reads ” Lest We Forget”. Let us never forget an evil event and the way it has changed our history forever!
” Lies can never take over and distort the TRUTH.”..We need more Arshavir Shiragians.. to clean up oligarchs from our government..& defend our Haigazian principles ..”ou menk gertank tebi aghpure luysin ” ….getseh azad angakh zove-zov Hayasdane…yev ir Heosnere
{“…We need more Arshavir Shiragians.. to clean up oligarchs from our government”}.
Just to be clear, you are advocating assassinating fellow Armenians, are you not ?
What ‘we’ need is for people like to go to RoA and try to do what you are advocating yourselves, instead of expecting others to do your dirty work, from the safety of your office.
The very capable security services of RoA will arrest you, and you will spend some quality time in the insane asylum. First (paging Shant Harutyunyan).
Next you will be tried in a court of law, and will most likely spend a few years in a comfortable Yerevan jail writing your memoirs.
btw: those presumably ‘evil’ oligarchs have created 1000s jobs in Armenia by their oligarchic activities. What have you done for Armenia ?
Where were you when those same oligarchs were in Armenia during its worst years after Independence, the War, managing to provide necessary ‘stuff’ to the country under conditions of complete blockade.
btw2: if you are so eager to play tough-guy, go to RoA or NKR, enlist in the military and you will have a chance to legitimately KIA enemy soldiers.
You can start the zove-zov Hayastan by helping break Azerbaijan. (you know, Kur River, Caspian Sea…)
How about it ?
The Legacy is one of the best books I have read. It is historical, suspenseful and gratifying to see a bunch of Turkish monsters and criminals responsible for the Armenian Genocide get a little taste of their own medicine and meet their makers in foreign lands where they were hiding from the Armenian avengers and patriotic heroes.
If I can mention two key points about the book, other than being very historical and detailed and informative about the hunt for genocidal Turkish leaders, they would be: 1) How dedicated and determined these young Armenian patriots were to bring the Turkish monsters to justice, 2) That no matter how powerful these criminals were, they learned they can never evade Armenian justice and that they can run but they can never hide!