The struggle for Arab independence : Riad el-Solh and the makers of the modern Middle East /
Seale, Patrick.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [768]-779) and index.
Grandee of the empire -- An Ottoman childhood -- Education in revolution -- In the shadow of the gallows -- Faysal's false dawn -- Fugitive from the French -- The Great Syrian Revolution -- A hero's return -- Man of the people -- Riad el-Solh, Zionism and the Hajj Amin al-Husayni -- Ben-Gurion and the Arabs -- The making of a Lebanese patriot -- Competing identities : the battle for men's minds -- The politics of the street -- The changing fortunes of war -- Rashid 'Ali and 'Operation Exporter' -- Riad Bey and General Spears -- The electoral challenge -- The compromise of the National Pact -- The decisive battle -- Painful awakening -- Goodbye to the French -- Master of the local scene -- The unwanted war -- The challenge from the revolutionaries -- Murder in Amman.
El-Solh, Riad, 1894-1951.