The struggle for Syria: a study of post-war Arab politics, 1945-1958 / Patrick Seale.

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Main Author: Seale, Patrick
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1965.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Hashimites and the Fertile Crescent
  • Egypt and Arab unity
  • The overthrow of the Veteran Nationalists
  • The first coup d'etat
  • Rival bids for Syria
  • Za'im's rule
  • Antun Sa'ada and his party
  • Hinnawi's counter coup
  • The third coup d'etat by Shishakli
  • Middle East defence, 1951
  • Military dictatorship
  • The overthrow of Shishakli
  • The Ba'th and the Communists
  • Free elections (1954)
  • The Baghdad pact and its enemies, I
  • The Baghdad pact and its enemies, II
  • The army and the "Malki Affair"
  • Syria's road to Suez, I: the Soviet-Egyptian offensive
  • Syria's road to Suez, II: the Western-Iraqi counter-attack
  • America single handed
  • Headlong into union.