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The Australian General Who Saved 80,000 Assyrians in WWI

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(AINA) -- In a new book entitled Debt of Honour, Australian authour Sarah Lindenmayer captures the enthralling true story of one of Australia's great military heroes, Lieutenant General Sir Stanley Savige and his role in saving thousands of Assyrians during the horrors of the First World War.

The Book

During the Great War the Assyrians were called Our Smallest Ally by the British; tragically their allegiance came at great cost.

On a secret military mission in the Persian Alps, beyond the reach of allied support and with the enemy at his heels, an Australian officer rode into a refugee camp crowded with terrified, wounded Assyrians. He collapsed from his horse onto the ground before them. Who were the Assyrians? Why was an Anzac in Persia in 1918? And why was he so far off mission?

Read more at: http://aina.org/news/20190131183756.htm
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