TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ureneck,Lou
TI  - The great fire: One American's Mission to Rescue Victims of the 20th century's first Genocide 
SN  - 9780062259882
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - Jennings, Asa Kent,
KW  - Armenian Genocide
KW  - Greco-Turkish War, 1921-1922
KW  - Refugees
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Izmir
KW  - Izmir (Turkey)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
N1  - For Irene; With hard and supercover; Includes bibliography and index: p. 451-488; Contents: End of an empire -- An innocent arrives -- The Great Offensive -- George Horton, poet-consul -- Garabed Hatcherian -- Admiral Bristol, American potentate -- Washington responds -- Jennings's suggestion -- Theodora -- An American destroyer arrives -- The view from Nif -- Back in Constantinople -- Captain Hepburn's dilemma -- Garabed Hatcherian -- Noureddin Pasha -- fire breaks out -- "All boats over" -- Morning after -- Garabed Hatcherian -- Oil, war, and the protection of minorities -- Bristol's resistance -- Halsey Powell -- Theodora -- Days of despair -- "We are celebrating Smyrna" -- Jennings and the Hand of God -- Garabed Hatcherian -- Washington feels pressure -- Jennings negotiates with a Prime Minister -- The evacuation begins -- The Rhodes letter resurfaces -- Revolution -- British assistance -- After Smyrna
N2  - Summary: Relates the true story of Asa Jennings, a YMCA minister from upstate New York who arrived in Smyrna (now Izmir) in 1922 to teach sports to boys, but instead found himself working tirelessly to help rescue more than 250,000 refugees during the genocide of Armenian and Greek Christians
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