The Disinherited

Summer, 1915

Many miles away from the terrible slaughter of the trenches in France and Belgium, another slaughter, equally ugly if less well-reported, has broken out.

Determined to finally be rid of what it sees as an alien, heathen presence, Germany’s Muslim ally, Turkey, has begun an all-out genocidal assault upon the long-persecuted Christian citizens of the Ottoman Empire: the Armenians.

Over the next few months, driven from their homes throughout Asia Minor and robbed of all they possess, more than a million and a half Christian Armenians will suffer and perish.

But some, through unimaginable feats of courage and endurance, will do anything to survive.

This is the story of one family’s daring attempt to escape and of the two women, an English mission doctor and a French nursing sister, who accompanied them.

Both sides in the brutal conflict are brought to life: the decadent local Turkish administration, hell-bent on genocide, and its bewildered victims, unprepared and largely unarmed, fighting for their lives…