Description
From a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist specializing in the Middle East, this groundbreaking account of the Syrian Civil War reveals the never-before-published true story of a 21st-century humanitarian disaster.
Assad or We Burn the Country examines Syrias tragedy through the generational saga of the Assad and Tlass families. The book draws on reporting experience in Damascus and exclusive interviews with Manaf Tlass to reveal the family behind the destruction of a country and the chaos of an entire region.
Dagher shows how one of the worlds most vicious police states came to be and explains how a regional conflict extended globally, engulfing the Middle East and pitting the United States and Russia against one another. Timely, propulsive, and expertly reported, this is the definitive account of this global crisis.