SEALE Patrick <br/><br/>
Asad of Syria:  the struggle for the Middle East 

 - Berkeley, Calif., USA:  University of California Press,  1995 
 - 552p. 
<br/><br/> Biography of President Asad of Syria which charts his rise to power through his early military career, his period as Defence Minister and eventual presidency in 1971. The book is also an extensive history of Middle East politics in the second half of the twentieth century. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0520069765 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>BIOGRAPHIES<br/>HAFEZ AL--ASAD<br/>MIDDLE EAST--POLITICS<br/>SYRIA