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...FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH? Franz Werfel?Viking...
...ordinary U. S. reader, "Armenian" suggests Levantine rug-dealers, massacres, Michael Arlen. But last week Author Franz Werfel gave the word a new and heroic significance. In The Forty Days of Musa Dagh he recited an Armenian epic founded on an actual incident of the World War. Humanizing one more bloody no-man's-land, this 817-page novel immediately takes its place, with All Quiet on the Western Front and The Case of Sergeant Grischa, as one of the War's big books...
...officer of Turkish artillery, he expected to be called up, was prepared to go. But significant incidents and rumors soon showed him how the wind was blowing. While he was waiting for the storm he racked his brain to find a possible shelter. On Musa Dagh, seagirt mountain overlooking the village, he found it. When the expected order came for all Armenians to evacuate the valley, Bagradian had made his plans. Night before the Turks came to clear them out, 5,000 Armenian villagers moved up to the heights of Musa Dagh. They expected nothing but death, but they preferred...
...consuls, God-fearing Moslems, meddle dangerously with high-tension wires to save a race condemned by cold policy. Not all his Turks are smoothly smiling villains nor all his Armenians embattled heroes. More than a stirring tale, a passionate defense of a persecuted minority, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh has implications that make it unwelcome in Germany...
...Forty Days of Musa Dagh is the December choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...