Jon Cocks

Angel of Aleppo is a story of the Armenian Genocide. It takes the reader through history not widely told and highlights the little-known link between the Genocide and the WW1 Anzac experience. It puts into harsh focus the incomprehensible cruelty of the Ottoman Young Turks and their henchmen towards their Armenian citizens, but it is ultimately a story about faith and love and the redemptive power of forgiveness.Angel of Aleppo tells a story not unlike celebrated US-Armenian author Chris Bohjalian's The Sandcastle Girls.Angel of Aleppo is set primarily from 1915 – 1919 in Anatolia (southern modern-day Turkey), Aleppo and the Mesopotamian desert. It moves briefly to Beirut, Lebanon, in 1923...