Asad
Subtitle: The Struggle for the Middle East
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 8, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9780520066670
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; Presidents; General; Middle East - History; Current Affairs; Biography / Autobiography; Politics/International Relations; Middle East; International; Assad, Hafez; History / Middle East; Assad, Hafez,; Syria; 1928-; 1930-2000; Biography; Politics and government
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.