
Assad or We Burn the Country
How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
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Gary Tiedemann
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Sam Dagher
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.
In spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army commander, Manaf Tlass, for advice about how to respond to Arab Spring-inspired protests. Tlass pushed for conciliation but Assad decided to crush the uprising - an act which would catapult the country into an eight-year long war, killing almost half a million and fueling terrorism and a global refugee crisis.
Assad or We Burn the Country examines Syria's tragedy through the generational saga of the Assad and Tlass families, once deeply intertwined and now estranged in Bashar's bloody quest to preserve his father's inheritance. By drawing on his own reporting experience in Damascus and exclusive interviews with Tlass, Dagher takes listeners within palace walls to reveal the family behind the destruction of a country and the chaos of an entire region.
Dagher shows how one of the world's 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, Assad or We Burn the Country is the definitive account of this global crisis, going far beyond the news story that has dominated headlines for years.
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Critic reviews
"A moving and insightful account of the Syrian civil war." (Yuval Noah Harari, The Guardian)
"A riveting chronicle from a courageous journalist who was there to witness and report the truth. A book that should deservedly garner significant award attention." (Kirkus, starred review)
"He was briefly held by pro-regime militiamen in an underground prison and was summarily expelled by the Mukhabarat in 2014. This gives his description of events a credibility lacking in many other accounts." (Patrick Cockburn, New York Times Book Review)
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Excellent book
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I highly recommend this work….
The Gangsters of Russia, Iran & Syria
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Personally I would’ve preferred more about the involvement of the people of Kurdistan and Rojava, but that’s not what the book claims to be so it’s not something I can fault it for. Overall good book, and I recommend it before you have any sort of conversation of Syria, Assad, or civil strife.
Be safe, take care of yourself.
Good primer on Syria today (2020)
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For anyone who is interested to know what happened there, this book is the Bible that you should look for.
Thank you Sam!
Excellent review of the worst 21st genocide
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Eye opening insight
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insider account of Syrian civil war
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"Assad or Nobody. Assad or We Burn the Country."
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the telling of Syrian story as truly happened
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Magnificent story of the Assad family’s rise to power
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Good listen
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