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T J Gorton: ONLY THE DEAD W9 [2019] paperback CGIFT On 19th June 1953 EthelAs old Vartan sits reading mystical Persian poetry amongst the dust and disintegration of war torn Beirut, the fluted pillars of his decaying house wreathed in shadows, his thoughts wander back, inevitably, to another conflict, many years before Only the Dead is the story of Vartan Nakashian, a young Armenian from Aleppo caught in the midst of a world war that is proving catastrophic for his people. We follow his journey of love, espionage, tragedy,