MOUNT SEMELE

Many tragic events punctuated the first third of the 20th century. Each produced its victims, its heroes, its victors and its vanquished. Few have been more quietly relegated to the fading, unopened pages of musty history books than the final crisis of the Assyrian nation and the related pragmatically self-serving decisions of the post WWI powers that allowed--no, encouraged--it to occur.

The sequence of the events has been more or less acurately chronicled by historians, typically as little more than footnotes about a roving band of little known and poorly understood people who inflicted themselves as embarrassing, painful, thorns in the sides of Great Britain, France and Iraq. Until this publication, the human story of these proud, tireless, Assyrian people has not been told.

Mount Semele is an epic drama. It is an historical saga of monumental proportions--both in scope and characters. Most of the participants of the story are true historical figures, whose travails were pivotal in fomenting, creating and leading their countries.

Ivan Kakovitch. Published 2002. 360 pages. Hardcover.

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