Assad or we burn the country : how one family's lust for power destroyed Syria / Sam Dagher.

A Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter and former prisoner of the pro Assad militia presents a revisionist account of the Syrian Civil War that incorporates previously unpublished details about the origins and persistence of its human atrocities. In spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned...

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Main Author: Dagher, Sam (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
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Physical Description:xxvi, 564 pages : maps, genealogical table ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a You're next, Doctor -- Embracing the clouds -- Creation and punishment -- Golden knight -- To whom the horses after you, Bassel? -- New king and early spring -- Hit them where it hurts -- Precious interlocutor and unavoidable player -- No more fear after today -- The conspiracy -- Make peace -- You're too soft -- The Hama manual -- Yalla Erbal Ya, Bashar! (Come on, Bashar, leave!) -- Don't stay with the butcher -- Blood on my hands -- We have to win! -- Exiting -- No role for you -- Holy War: at your service, O Bashar! -- The clan's knights and soothsayers -- Macabre coronation -- A game of nations -- Abu Ali Putin -- Daesh or Bashar? -- Dictators strike back -- but hope endures. 
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