The ‘Great Fire’ that caused the burning of the Ottoman Empire in the year 1922 will now be forgotten no more. A book called The Great Fire is being published by Harper Collins and will be a tell-all tale of the incident.
The book will revolve around a YMCA worker called Asa Jennings. Jennings actually managed the incredible feet of leading around 25,000 people to safety. The Turkish National Army, which was led by Mustapha Kemal, was aiming at the genocide of Christians in the final of a ten year activity.
The main targets of the Turkish Army were the Armenians, Greeks and people from other stratification. Jennings, who was a Methodist minister, was inspired indeed. He was in Smyrna while he was inflicted with a fever, a particular sine disease and an inconvenient limp.
Notwithstanding, he fought through his personal perils to come to the aid of 25,000 potential victims. Lou Ureneck, who will be authoring the book, said in an interview that,
“It was a humanitarian disaster. I have another personal story that I want to tell and had already begun it, but I decided I wanted to tell the Asa Jennings’ story first.”
The author, who wrote books like Backcast and Cabin, certainly feels wonderful to tell the story of this hero who performed this wonderfully simple act of leading 25,000 people out of danger. The book will provide a detailed account of this leadership.
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