The Right to Struggle:  Selected Writings of Monte Melkonian on the Armenian National Question
Monte Melkonian, a third-generation Central Californian, was a trained archaeologist who spoke eight languages.  He left the country of his birth at an early age, to participate in the Iranian revolution, the defense of the Armenian community in Lebanon, the guerrilla resistance in mountainous Kurdistan and the combined Lebanese-Palestinian anti-Zionist resistance.  Because of his activities as an Armenian militant, he spent years living underground and in prison.  From 1990 until his death in battle on June 12, 1993, Melkonian lead thousands of mountaineers to one victory after another against a better-equipped and more numerous enemy in one of the most vicious wars raging on the ruins of the former Soviet Union.