horton quotes numerous contemporary communications including eyewitness accounts of the massacre of phocaea in 1914, by a frenchman, and the armenian massacres of 1914/15, by an american citizen and by a german missionary. he also published letters that he received at the consulate from americans living in smyrna and radio messages that he received while traveling by ship from smyrna to athens, which recorded how many lives were being saved by the british navy.