Syria: A History Of The Last Hundred YearsA fluent introduction to Syrias recent past, this book provides the backstory to the countrys collapse into brutal civil conflict (Andrew Arsan, author of Lebanon: A Country in Fragments). The fall of Syria into civil war over the past two years has spawned a regional crisis with reverberations growing louder in each passing month. In this timely account, John McHugo seeks to contextualize the headlines, providing broad historical perspective and a