Books
- Davis L. A., The Slaughterhouse Province. An American Diplomat's Report on the Armenian Genocide, 1915–1917, ed. by Susan X. Bleair, N.Y., 1989
His reports were dramatised in a BBC Radio 4 play, 'The Light of Darkness', broadcast on 4 September 2011 . It was written by Louis Nowra, a playwright who has researched Davis's life and work and the history of Harput.
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