A detailed study of the Syrian and Lebanon campaign of World War II. In June 1941, Australian, British, Indian and Free French forces invaded the Vichy French-c

The increasingly vibrant political culture emerging in Lebanon and Syria in the 1930s and early 1940s is key to the understanding of local approaches towards th

At the height of World War II, while the Germans were setting their sights on Moscow, Free French, British and Australian forces launched an assault on the Vich

Describes his gradual disenchantment with de Gaulle. Appointed by Churchill in 1941 to head a mission to Syria & Lebanon, Spears found himself at war not only w