Ambassador Morgenthau's Story: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Ambassador Morgenthau's Story, credited to Henry Morgenthau, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Ambassador Morgenthau's Story, by Henry Morgenthau. Read by Margaret Espaillat. Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important primary historical resource for the study of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the Armenian Genocide. During this genocide, approximately 1,500,000 Armenians living in Anatolia were murdered in an attempt to rid Turkey of its non-Turkish populations. Mr. Morgenthau left Turkey a frustrated man, having done all that he was able through diplomatic circles to halt the murders, to no avail. Today, Turkey’s official position is that their attempt to annihilate the Armenian population in Turkey was not a genocide. In 2010, the American House Foreign Relations Committee passed House Resolution 252, officially recognizing the Armenian Genocide. “If we hope to stop future genocides we need to admit to those horrific acts of the past. When Hitler had to convince his cohorts that the world would let them get away with it, he turned to them and said, ‘Who today speaks of the annihilation of the Armenians?’,” said Congressman Brad Sherman, co-sponsor of the resolution. “The last act of any genocide is genocide denial, and the first act of preventing the next genocide is to acknowledge past acts of genocide.” (Introduction by Margaret Espaillat)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
• Author credits: Henry Morgenthau
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 12:38:52

Catalogue topics

• autobiography
• politics
• Turkey
• Ottomans
• Armenians
• Armenian genocide
• diplomacy
• World War I

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 01 - A German Superman — 35:48
2. 02 - The 'Boss System' — 41:35
3. 03 - The Personal Representative of the Kaiser — 38:13
4. 04 - Germany Mobilizes the Turkish Army — 12:25
5. 05 - Wangenheim Smuggles the Goeben and the Breslau — 24:00
6. 06 - Wangenheim Tells how the Kaiser Started the War — 14:15
7. 07 - Germany's Plans for New Territories — 9:50
8. 08 - A Classic Instance of German Propaganda — 17:01
9. 09 - Germany Closes the Dardanelles — 13:00
10. 10 - Turkey's Abrogation of the Capitulations — 20:14
11. 11 - Germany Forces Turkey into the War — 12:39
12. 12 - The Turks and Alien Enemies — 31:52
13. 13 - The Invasion of the Notre Dame de Sion School — 18:46
14. 14 - Wangenheim and Bethlehem Steel — 26:45
15. 15 - Djemal — 25:40
16. 16 - The Turks Prepare to Flee — 34:21
17. 17 - Enver — 27:36
18. 18 - The Allied Armada Sails Away — 28:09
19. 19 - A Fight for Three Thousand Civilians — 38:07
20. 20 - More Adventures of the Foreign Residents — 14:54
21. 21 - Bulgaria on the Auction Block — 19:25
22. 22 - The Turk Reverts to the Ancestral Type — 37:19
23. 23 - The 'Revolution' at Van — 14:48
24. 24 - The Murder of a Nation — 49:56

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