Asad
Subtitle: The Struggle for the Middle East
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 11, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9780520069763
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Biography: general; Politics and government; Biography; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; Syria; Middle East - General; History / Middle East; Assad, Hafez,; 1928-; 1930-2000; Presidents
First sentence: Around the turn of the century, an itinerant Turkish wrestler came one day to a village in the mountains of north-west Syria and, in a voice which rang round the hamlet, offered to take on all comers.