Year of the sword : the Assyrian Christian genocide : a history / by Yacoub, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…; Reporting the genocide ; The range of witnesses ; The Paris Peace Conference, 1919 ; International solidarity ; The national and international press : an essential intermediary ; Humanitarian aid -- The Scenes and Acts of the Tragedy: A centuries-old persecution ; The first centuries ; Ottoman antecedents to the 1915 massacres ; 1915: historic Mesopotamia ; Overview of the massacres ; The invasion of Hakkari by Turco-Kurdish forces ; The Syriacs ; Extermination and deportation: the children of the D -- Strategy and Methodology of Eradication: Genocide and ethnocide ; Lamenting a tragedy ; The massacres and the United Nations -- After 1915: The Tragedy Continues: 1918: from Salmas and Urmia towards Hamadan and Iraq ; Assyrians at arms ; The Assyrian Levies ; The Turkey-Iraq frontier (1925) ; Fleeing Turkey -- Conclusion: Returning to the Stage of History: The impact of the diaspora ; Preserving memory ; Iraq: homeland or safe haven?…”