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BBC 3 has broadcast a report on Franz Werfel's epic novel "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh", Nouvelles d'Arménie reported.

In the 50-minute report, the authors describe the novel as the 20th century’s most thrilling historical novel telling the true story of Armenian villagers who resisted the overwhelming Turkish forces on the mountain of Musa Dagh in 1915.

“This book reopens the great wound of the First World War – the Ottoman Empire’s attempt to annihilate its Armenian citizens,” announcer Maria Margaronis said, adding since its first publication in 1933, the book has often been subjected to censorship, but it did not prevent the book to be translated into 34 languages and spread worldwide.

Maria Margaronis noted Hollywood's attempts to film the “Forty Days of Musa Dagh” faced a decades-long campaign of long-distance censorship by the Turkish government.