Henry Morgethau was United States ambassador to Ottoman Turkey between 1913 and 1916. In 1914 he witnessed the Ottoman entry into World War I, followed by the Allied Dardanelles' campaign, and the genocide of Armenians. His memoir, Ambassador Morgenthau's Story, was written in 1918 with the authority of a first-hand observer and remains one of the classic accounts of World War I. This edition of Ambassador Morgenthau's Story includes a critical introduction by historian Ara Sarafian. Ambassador Morgenthau's Story is part of the Gomidas Institute's Armenian Genocide Documentation Series. The series includes* the diaries of another observer at the American embassy in Constantinople in 1915, Lewis Einstein's Inside Constantinople: A Diplomatist's Diary During the dardanelles Expedition, April-September, 1915* Morgenthau's actual diaries on which Ambassador Morgenthau's Story was based United States Diplomacy on the Bosphorus: The Diaries of Ambassador Morgenthau, 1913-1916* US consular and diplomatic records related to Morgenthau' understanding of the Armenian Genocide United States Official Records on the Armenian Genocide 1915-1917