A narrative history of genocidal acts by Ottoman Turks against Armenians between 1915 and 1923 traces the impact of three central figures and offers insight into the Armenians' largely unrecognized struggle for justice throughout a subsequent half century.

Prologue : memories -- Death of a nation -- The nine-hundred-day republic -- Judgment in Berlin -- Seeds of denial -- The Truman Doctrine - Silence -- Resurrection -- "I will set the example" -- Legislating history -- "The past is not dead".