Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski,Christopher de Bellaigue
Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describes the tyrannical monarch, who, despite his cruel oppression of the Iranian people, sees himself as the father of a nation, who can turn a backward country into a great power - a vain hope that proves a complete failure. Yet even as Iran becomes a 'behemoth of riches' and as the Shah lives like a European billionaire, its people live in a climate of fear, terrorized by the secret police. Told with intense power and feeling, Kapuscinski portrays the inevitable build-up to revolution - a cataclysmic upheaval that delivered Iran into the rule of the Ayatollah Khomeini.
This hauntingly emblematic story reads like something Sebald would have taken up and absorbed.
—— TelegraphThere is no doubting the author's immense scholarship... He has a first-class understanding of strategy and tactics
—— Simon Heffer , Literary ReviewDeserves to become the standard work on the desert war in 1942
—— Richard Holmes'Desperately sad and powerful...Unforgettable'
—— Jewish TelegraphUnforgettable... Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova have recovered nothing less than a lost classic of reportage
—— Sean McCarthy , The ScotsmanGrossman was above all a clear-eyed and generous witness to the human cost of war, civilians and soldiers of both sides, the lost women and broken men; in the very highest order of journalistic achievement, he was as alert to the victims as much as to the heroes his audience was required to read about
—— David Flusfeder , Daily TelegraphImpeccably edited, the commentary as informative as it is unobtrusive.
—— Robert Chandler , Financial TimesIn bringing his notebooks to a wider audience, and in reminding us about this brilliant witness, Beevor and Vinogradova have done their readers - and Grossman's memory - a great service
—— Independent'Nicholas Stargardt evokes the individual voices of children under Nazi rule. In re-creating their wartime experiences, he has produced a challenging new historical interpretation of the Second World War
—— History Today
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