Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh

By Franz Werfel

Subjects: Fiction, war & military, Armenians, Persecution, World War, 1914-1918 in fiction, World War, 1914-1918, Turkey, fiction, Armenian massacres, 1915-1923, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general, German language, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Musa Dagh, Defense of, Turkey, 1915, World war, 1914-1918, fiction, Fiction, History, Jebel Mūsa (Syria), Defense of, 1915, Musa Dagh, Defense of, Turkey, 1915 in fiction, European war, 1914-1919

Description: **The Forty Days of Musa Dagh** (German: *Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh*) is a 1933 novel by Austrian-Bohemian writer Franz Werfel based on events that took place in 1915, during the second year of World War I and at the beginning of the Armenian Genocide. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forty_Days_of_Musa_Dagh))