Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire

** Adventures in history and the land of Nod **

This may be the perfect book to fall asleep to. I know almost nothing about Assyria, but every night am excited to learn. There’s little ability for an author to assemble a plot, since we know so little about the Assyrian empire. Missing a few chapters cannot cause a reader to miss the plot - our historical record is already full of holes. The vignettes What we do have contains the rangu of skullduggery of history and civilization building that you would expect. I fell asleep to this book for a month, read and forgot chapters multiple times, and honestly still don’t remember too much about the Assyrian empire. But I did sleep well!