HIGH up on the slopes of Musa Dagh, the Mountain of Moses, which towers on the shore of the Mediterranean in Syria a few miles from Antioch and Aleppo, some five thousand Armenian villagers, men, ...
THE FORTY DAYS OF MUSA DAGH—Franz Werfel—Viking ($3). To the ordinary U. S. reader, “Armenian” suggests Levantine rug-dealers, massacres, Michael Arlen. But last week Author Franz Werfel gave the word ...
“The Forty Days of Musa Dagh,” Franz Werfel’s new novel dealing with the defense of an Armenian village against Turkish troops, was published Friday under the Viking imprint. The 300,000 word book is ...
HEARKEN UNTO THE VOICE — Franz Werfel— Viking ($3). In The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Franz Werfel wrote a novel that was at once an account of an extraordinary military operation, a story of a ...
Franz Werfel’s acclaimed award-winning novel at last on film. Before the Nazi atrocities of WW II there was Turkey’s war against the Armenians. This is the courageous account of the Armenians’ fight ...