"The 'Scourge of Asia' is a gripping personal testimony by diplomat George Horton, who served as the US Consul General in Smyrna during the years of the Asia Minor Catastrophe. As an eyewitness, he reveals the organized massacres of Greeks and Armenians by the Turks and the passive stance maintained by the Great Powers.

'The Scourge of Asia' is a book that should be read by anyone interested, even slightly, in understanding the complex and avoidable events that led to the destruction of the city of Smyrna... Horton's narrative is reliable and significant. He himself was an eyewitness to many of the shocking events he recounts in his book and witnessed with his own eyes many acts of terrorism, including the persecutions against the Christians living in Asia Minor."
from the Introduction by author and historian Giles Milton