A superb, authoritatively written insider's account of Iran, one of the most mysterious but significant and powerful nations in the world. Few historians and journalists writing in English have been able to meaningfully examine post-revolutionary Iranian life. Years after his death...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
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Christopher De Bellaigue
ISBN:9780007113934
A superb, authoritatively written insider's account of one of the most mysterious but significant and powerful nations in the worldFew historians and journalists writing in English have been able meaningfully to examine post-revolutionary Iranian life. Years after his death...more details Format:Hardback
A superb, authoritatively written insider's account of one of the most mysterious but significant and powerful nations in the world: Iran. Few historians and journalists writing in English have been able to meaninfully examine post-revolutionary Iranian life. Years after his death...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
The history of Iran in the late twentieth century is a chronicle of religious fervor and violent change -- from the Islamic Revolution that ousted the Shah in favor of a rigid fundamentalist government to the bloody eight-year war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. But what happened to the hostage-takers...more details Format:Paperback Pages:283
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Christopher de Bellaigue
ISBN:9781847921086
On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup against a cussed, bed-ridden 72-year-old. His name was Muhammad Mossadegh and his crimes had been to nationalise his country's oil industry...more details Format:Hardback Pages:304
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Christopher de Bellaigue
ISBN:9780061844706
"The Economist"'s Tehran correspondent Christopher de Bellaigue brings to light the never-before-told full story of one of the great anti-colonial heroes of the twentieth century: Muhammad Mossadegh...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:304
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Christopher de Bellaigue
ISBN:9781594202520
An esteemed journalist travels to Turkey to investigate the legacy of the Armenian genocide and the quest for Kurdish statehood. In 2001...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:270
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Christopher de Bellaigue
ISBN:9780143118848
"A finely written, brave, and very personal book." -Orhan Pamuk In 2001, Christopher de Bellaigue wrote a story for "The New York Review of Books...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Christopher de Bellaigue
ISBN:9781590172384
When Christopher de Bellaigue first visited Iran in 1999, he found it irresistably alive: under the leadership of President Mohammad Khatami...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:230
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de Bellaigue Christopher
ISBN:9780747596769
What is the meaning of love and death in a remote, forgotten, impossibly conflicted part of the world? In Rebel Land the acclaimed author and journalist Christopher de Bellaigue journeys to Turkey's inhospitable eastern provinces to find out. Immersing himself in the achingly beautiful district of Varto...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288