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The Blue Book, officially titled The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 1915-1916, was an official report commissioned by the British Parliament and presented in 1916 by Viscount Bryce and Arnold J. Toynbee. The 742-page volume is a compilation of over 100 sources that chronicled the early period of the Armenian genocide and the Assyrian genocide in the Ottoman Empire.
The report is seen as a major propaganda form that Britain used in order to influence international public opinion regarding the behaviour of Ottoman Empire on Armenians similar to the another well known report Committee on Alleged German Outrages. It was a significant publication from the War Propaganda Bureau at Wellington House.
The Report had a profound impact on public opinion in Allied and neutral countries against Ottoman Empire. The eyewitness testimony published included sensationalist accounts of mutilations and rapes for which there is no other evidence. These invented atrocities tainted the Report and have made it an often cited example of propaganda and psychological warfare.