Syrian RequiemA compact, incisive history of one of the defining conflicts of our time. Leaving almost half a million dead and displacing an estimated twelve million people, the Syrian Civil War is a humanitarian catastrophe of unimaginable scale. Syrian Requiem analyses the causes and course of this bitter conflictfrom its first spark in a peaceful Arab Spring protest to the tenuous victory of the Asad dictatorshipand traces how the fighting has reduced Syria to a