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THE CROSS AND THE CRESCENT by Lindy V. Avakian. Phoenix, Arizona, UCS Press. 256 pp. $18.95.
IN MY LIFETIME: Family, Community, Zion by Miriam Freund-Rosenthal. Chestnut Ridge, New York, the Town House Press, Inc. 161 pp. No price stated.
BALAAM'S CURSE: How Israel Lost its Way and How it Can Find it by Moshe Leshem. New York, Simon & Schuster. 304 pp. $19.95
THE CHRISTIAN aspect of the Turkish atrocities against the Armenian minority in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 is what mainly moved this Californian of Armenian descent in writing this secondary saga of World War I.
Relating the Armenian story as "an earlier genocide" which provided the inspiration for Hitler's Holocaust against the Jews, the author presents the case through the reminiscences of an Armenian patriot, Soghomon Tehlirian, who adopted the title "The Avenger" and assassinated the former Turkish prime minister, Talaat Pasha, in Berlin in March 1921.
Talaat was perceived by the Armenian survivors as primarily responsible for the massacre of more than one million of their countrymen as an act of genocide by a Moslem regime against a Christian...