"Draws on extensive research, including first-hand accounts, and provides a compelling overview of the first three years of the ongoing conflict in Syria. The book features 120 full-colour photographs, 27 full-colour artworks and four colour maps."--Back cover.

Cover title.

1. Background -- 2. Government Forces -- 3. Massacres of Protesters -- 4. Spread of the Insurgency -- 5. Air Force to the Rescue -- Conflagration.