The collapse of Syria into civil war over the past two years has spawned a regional crisis whose reverberations grow louder with each passing month. In this timely account, John McHugo seeks to contextualize the headlines, providing broad historical perspective and a richly layered analysis of a country few in the United States know or understand. McHugo charts the history of Syria from World War I to the tumultuous present, examining the country s thwarted attempts at independence, the French policies that sowed the seeds of internal strife, and the fragility of its foundations as a...
The collapse of Syria into civil war over the past two years has spawned a regional crisis whose reverberations grow louder with each passing month. I...