The forty days of Musa Dagh / Franz Werfel ; based on the translation from the German by Geoffrey Dunlop, revised & expanded by James Reidel, with a preface by Vartan Gregorian.
A historical novel that tells of a group of five thousand Armenian villagers, led by Gabriel Bagradian, who retreat to the mountain Musa Dagh in 1915 where they struggle for forty days against Turkish troops whose goal is to exterminate the Armenian people.