The Battle for SyriaAn unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syrias ongoing civil war. One of the best informed and non partisan accounts of the Syrian tragedy yet published.Patrick Cockburn, Independent Syrias brutal, long lasting civil war is widely viewed as a domestic contest that began in 2011 and only later drew foreign nations into the fray. However, in The Battle for Syria,