One hundred years later - the personal, the political and the historical in four new books on the Armenian Genocide

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Review essay:    Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide by Vicken Cheterian, London, Hurst Publishers, 2014, 393 pp., £22.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-84904-458-5  Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009 by Fatma Müge Göcek, New York, Oxford University Press, 2014, 656 pp., £51.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-19-933420-9  Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide by Thomas de Waal, New York, Oxford University Press, 2015, 298 pp., US$29.95 (hbk), ISBN 978-0- 19-93506908 “They can Live in the Desert but Nowhere else”: A History of the Armenian Genocide by Ronald Grigor Suny, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2015, 489 pp., US$35 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-691-14730-7