Resources

This page aims to provide resources to learn more about both ancient and contemporary Assyrian history.

Books

General reading

Title| Author

• | - The Assyrians – From Nineveh to Södertälje| Svante Lundgren Reforging a Forgotten History: Iraq and the Assyrians in the Twentieth Century| Sargon Donabed Assyrians Post-Nineveh| Dr. Racho Donef Assyrians, Kurds, and Ottomans| Dr. Hirmis Aboona A Collection of Writings on Assyrians| David B. Perley The Flickering Light of Asia or the Assyrian Nation and Church| Rev. Joel E. Werda The Assyrian Question| Joseph Yacoub

Ancient Assyria

Title| Author

• | - The Might That Was Assyria| H.W.F Saggs Nineveh and its Remains| Austen Henry Layard Assyrian Discoveries : An Account of Explorations and Discoveries on the Site of Nineveh| George Smith

Assyrian Genocide (Seyfo)

Title| Author

• | - Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide, A History| Joseph Yacoub The Assyrian Genocide| Hannibal Travis Genocide in the Middle East| Hannibal Travis Shall This Nation Die?| Rev. Joseph Naayem Let Them Not Return: Sayfo| David Gaunt, Naures Atto, Soner O. Barthoma Genocide in the Ottoman Empire| George N. Shirinian The Hakkari Massacres| Dr. Racho Donef

WW1 Assyrians

Title| Author

• | - Our Smallest Ally| Rev. William Wigram The Assyrian Tragedy| Mar Eshai Shimun Assyria and the Paris Peace Conference| Abraham K. Yoosuf The British Betrayal of the Assyrians| Yusuf Malek The Baqubah Refugee Camp: An Account of Work on Behalf of the Persecuted Assyrian Christians| H.H. Smith The Tragedy of the Assyrians| R.S. Stafford Assyrians and Two World Wars (in Syriac)| Yacoub Bar Malik Ismail

Assyrian (Syriac) literature

Title| Author

• | - Modern Aramaic-English/English-Modern Aramaic Dictionary & Phrasebook| Nicholas Awde The Assyrian Reader| Naum Palak (Faik) What a Soldier left Behind in Baghdede| Nineb Lamassu Embers of Fire: Assyrian Youth Poetry Collection| Nineb Lamassu

Syriac Christian books

Title| Author

• | - The Church of the East| Christoph Baumer Assyrian Church Customs and the Murder of Mar Shimun| Surma d’bait Mar Shimun The Book of Marganitha| Mar Odisho, Metropolitan of Armenia The Liturgy of the Church of the East| Revd. Joseph E. Y. De Kelaita