TY  - BOOK
AU  - SEALE Patrick
TI  - Asad of Syria: the struggle for the Middle East
SN  - 0520069765 (pbk.)
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Berkeley, Calif., USA
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - BIOGRAPHIES
KW  - HAFEZ AL
KW  - ASAD
KW  - MIDDLE EAST
KW  - POLITICS
KW  - SYRIA
N2  - 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
ER  -