Asad: The Struggle for The Middle East
Patrick Seale
I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd
For more than twenty years the ruler of Syria Hafiz al-Asad has been at the heart of the struggle for power in the Middle East. A remote, enigmatic figure, he is arguably the most important Arab leader of our time.
Based on unique access to him, his associates and adversaries, Patrick Seale’s biography charts how Asad developed from a simple country boy into a political chess player of great subtlety in a series of brutal contests with such players as Henry Kissinger and Anwar al-Sadat, Golda Meir and Menachem Begin, King Husayn of Jordan, Saddam Husayn of Iraq and U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz.
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