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Astra Sabondjian was born into culture and privilege in late 19th century Ottoman or Western Armenia. Her father, a lawyer, fought hard for the underdog, while her uncles made jewellery for the Russian Tsar. Memories to last a lifetime. From a young age fate forced a lifelong nomadic destiny - across four counties, over fifty years. Set against a recurring backdrop of genocide and war, Astra, spirited, radical, idealistic, marries Setrag, a well-known newspaper editor and political activist. Together they strive for social justice, but in an empire seething with brutality, mortal dangers are never far away. Again and again fearless, strategic, talented, she refuses to be a victim. On a mission to protect the people she loves, Astra must find a way.

This is a memoir and village history of the Armenian Genocide. The author was 14 years old when the Ottoman Turks began the extermination of the Armenian Genocide. While the men in his village of Til (Palou region) were arrested and executed, most of the remaining population was "deported" and perished on their way to the Syrian deserts. The author and around 20 other women and children remained in their village and subjected to an assimilation process to become Turks. They had their names changed, converted to Islam and renounce their Armenian identities. This is a detailed, harrowing account of the author's suffering, as well as the suffering (and deaths) of others around him. Originally written in the 1930s and published in Armenian in 1938, this is an early account of the Armenian Genocide on the eve of the Nazi Holocaust in Europe.

This is the memoir of a child survivor of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey. His work describes life in the old country (ethnography), the mass murder of Armenians in 1915 (Genocide), his survival for six years among his victimisers, and then his escape to Iran. Wishing to join his brothers in the US, he was barred from entering the USA because of immigration quotas. He therefore settled in Mexico and eventually entered the USA by crossing the border illegally and settling in Los Angeles.

Armenia's foreign policy options between 1991 and 2016 with respect to Russia, Turkey, the European Union and the United States.