An American Physician in Turkey:  A Narrative of Adventures in Peace and in War

Originally published in 1917, this is the memoir of Dr. Clarence D. Ussher, who served as a doctor and missionary in Marsovan, Harput and Van from 1898 to 1915. It contains eyewitness information about the massacres of Van in 1915. This book is utilized in Atom Egoyan’s film Ararat as the basis for the story of “the film within a film.”