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100	1		_aUreneck, Lou
245	1	4	_aThe great fire : _bOne American's Mission to Rescue Victims of the 20th century's first Genocide / _cLou Ureneck.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bEcco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, _c2015.
300			_axvi, 488 p. : _bill., maps ; _c24 cm.
500			_aFor Irene
500			_aWith hard and supercover.
504			_aIncludes bibliography and index: p. 451-488
505	0		_aContents: 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.
520			_aSummary: 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
600	1	4	_aJennings, Asa Kent, _d1877-1933
650	1	4	_aArmenian Genocide
650	1	4	_aGreco-Turkish War, 1921-1922 _xRefugees _zTurkey _zIzmir
651		4	_aIzmir (Turkey) _xHistory _y20th century
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