Author Efthimios N. Couzinos, a member of Turkey's ill-fated Greek minority who later adopted the United States as his home, provides a vivid recollection of life in Turkey before, during, and after the First World War. Couzinos tells the story of the halcyon days of his youth before depicting the terrible ordeal that he and other Ottoman Greeks and Armenians experienced at the hands of the Turks and their leader Mustafa Kemal.
