In the mountains of eastern Anatolia, during the Iron Age between the 9th and 6th centuries BC, a kingdom arose that ...

Military camps used by the Assyrian king Sennacherib ... around 701 B.C., the Assyrians controlled a rapidly growing empire ...

This aspect of the Neo- Assyrian empire is often overshadowed by scholars' baffling preoccupation with the Assyrian military machine and its so-called "barbaric behavior". The Assyrians never ...

It was the largest land empire that had yet been created ... Sennacherib mobilised the Assyrian imperial army, fought a brilliant campaign, seized the city of Lachish, killed its defenders ...

This is a book that tells the story of lieutenant general Stanley Savige who fought at Gallipoli, then commanded the operation that saved 50,000 Assyrian refugees from certain death in the Middle ...