The Odyssey of an Armenian Revolutionary Couple

Download or read book The Odyssey of an Armenian Revolutionary Couple written by Vahak Sarkis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Odyssey of an Armenian Revolutionary Couple: How They Survived the First Genocide of the 20th Century, is a historical biography of my father, Minas and mother, Aghavni Dersarkissian. From their translated autobiographies in Armenian, we follow Minas’ life leaving home at age 12 to become a priest, meanwhile learning of his family’s slaughter by the Turks; serving as a Turkish officer in WW-I, and then fighting against the Turks as guerrilla to save his people, the Armenians; while Minas in exile, Aghavni escapes with her life to become refugee, and how they find each other and face hardships anew.