COCKS, Jon
ISBN 978-1-923386-03-7
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ISBN 978-1-923386-86-0
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Angel Of Aleppo
Can faith survive the Armenian Genocide?
SOLDIERS MURDER HER MOTHER. THEY FORCE HER FROM THE FAMILY HOME.
Anoush must endure a death march through unforgiving desert, as Armenian refugees perish all about her, some of the million-plus whose blood forever stains the hands of the Ottoman Turks and the souls of their descendants.
Courageously keeping her small group of neighbourhood women together, Anoush endures the brutish guards driving a massive column of women, children, and old men south from Anatolia through Aleppo to the Mesopotamian desert. She learns to nurse against all odds in a city overfl owing with diseased and starving refugees. She becomes the Angel of Aleppo.
In the years that follow, can she fi nd the will to be the woman her mama raised her to be? Can she summon the strength to care?
From Anatolia to Aleppo and beyond, through the outrages and injustices of the Armenian Genocide, Angel of Aleppo is about losing everything but the healing power of love.
‘Angel of Aleppo is an emotionally charged historical fi ction novel that feels like it’s a true story… Jon Cocks manages to draw the historical parallels between the Armenian genocide and the Shoah without making it feel forced or out of the narrative… riveting historical drama that captures the essence of a dark moment in history and shows how love can still be pulled out of the rubble of our past.’ Literary Titan