Ashes of Our Fathers: Inside the Fall of Nagorno-Karabakh

Ashes of Our Fathers is a book that tells the story of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which broke out in 2023 and resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and up to a million homeless. It chronicles how the conflict has affected ordinary Armenians and Azerbaijanis and the decisions that enabled it.

Format: Hardback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 09 January 2025
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

Nagorno-Karabakh, a tiny breakaway state nestled in the mountains at the very edge of Europe, experienced a geopolitical hotspot since the Soviet Union fell, with tens of thousands dead and up to a million homeless. On 19 September 2023, war broke out once again in Nagorno-Karabakh, with Armenian forces surrendering to Azerbaijan and Russian peacekeepers abandoning post. Through the stories of ordinary Armenians and Azerbaijanis, Gabriel Gavin chronicles how Nagorno-Karabakh went from an ancient home shared by both peoples to a battle-scarred land of empty houses and untended graves. Ashes of Our Fathers reveals a simmering ethnic conflict inside the Kremlin's self-declared sphere of influence, the lives and loyalties of the people caught up in the chaos, and the decisions that enabled one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes of the 2020s.

Weight: 598g
Dimension: 223 x 149 x 35 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781911723578