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Christopher de Bellaigue
When Christopher de Bellaigue first visited Iran in 1999, he found it irresistably alive: under the leadership of President Mohammad Khatami, Islamic revolutionary rule was loosening and the prospects for…
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An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century, from the author of The Lion House
Istanbul, 1537. The greatest of the…
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In an intellectual detective story, an esteemed journalist travels to Turkey to investigate the legacy of the Armenian genocide and the quest for Kurdish statehood. Christopher de Bellaigue unravels the…
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Christopher De Bellaigue
In this superbly crafted and thoughtful book, de Bellaigue probes the human wreckage of the world’s last great revolution. The result is a subtly intense revelation of the hearts and…
What is the meaning of love and death in a remote, forgotten, impossibly conflicted part of the world? This book features the author’s journeys to Turkey’s inhospitable eastern provinces to…
"A new generation of travelers are eager to see innovation that will alleviate their guilt about flying, and they want to know where the industry is, how seriously they're taking…
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Originally published: London: Bodley Head, 2012.
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize Longlist for Non-Fiction Longlisted for the Cundill History Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A revelatory and game-changing narrative that…
"Christopher de Bellaigue has a magic talent for writing history. It is as if we are there as the era of Suleyman the Magnificent unfolds." --Orhan Pamuk, winner of the…
The finest Orientalist of his generation (Wall Street Journal) rewrites everything we thought we knew about the modern history of the Islamic world.
On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup against a cussed, bedridden 72-year-old. Above all, the life of Muhammad Mossadegh is a warning to…
Beginning with the dramatic collision of East and West following Napoleon’s arrival in Egypt, and taking us through 200 tumultuous years of Middle Eastern history, the author introduces us to…
From the palace cloisters of Istanbul to the blood-soaked fields of central Europe to the sun-scorched coast of north Africa, The Lion House pioneers a bold new style of eyewitness…
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A superb, authoritatively written insider’s account of Iran, one of the most mysterious but significant and powerful nations in the world.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Depicting the final years of the Shah in Iran, this book offers a meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. It describes the tyrannical monarch…
