An edition of The Shah's last ride (1988)

The Shah's Last Ride

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An edition of The Shah's last ride (1988)

The Shah's Last Ride

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William Shawcross, the acclaimed author of Sideshow, captures the true story of emperor's dreams and illusions, exile, and death at the hands of his friends and foes.
Shunned by his former allies, the Shah and the Empress Farah Diba, wandered from Egypt to the Bahamas, Mexico, and then Panama, where they were guarded by Colonial Noriega and his police. Their admission to the United States sparked the hostage crisis that consolidated the Islamic Fundamentalists' revolution. Ultimately, only Anwar Sadar would risk the Ayatollah Khoemini's wrath by granting them asylum.
From the surreal world of the Pahlavi court, with its lavish excesses and secret police, to the Shah's last days, here in the entire drama. It provides an incisive and intriguing portrait of international power politics and of a foreign policy debacle that still reverberates today.

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Publisher
Touchstone
Language
English
Pages
432

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Cover of: The Shah's Last Ride
The Shah's Last Ride
October 15, 1989, Touchstone
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Cover of: THE SHAH'S LAST RIDE
Cover of: The Shah's last ride
Cover of: The Shah's last ride
The Shah's last ride: the fate of an ally
1988, Simon and Schuster
in English

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Book Details


First Sentence

"January 16, 1979, Mehrabad Airport, Teheran."

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
432
Dimensions
9.2 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
Weight
1.5 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7662186M
ISBN 10
067168745X
ISBN 13
9780671687458
OCLC/WorldCat
21893906
Library Thing
239849
Goodreads
181277

Work Description

Chronicles the events leading to the fall of the last reigning monarch of the Peacock Thorne, detailing the excesses of his court, the rise of the Ayatollah, and his abdiction and life as refugee.

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April 27, 2011 Edited by OCLC Bot Added OCLC numbers.
August 6, 2010 Edited by IdentifierBot added LibraryThing ID
April 24, 2010 Edited by Open Library Bot Fixed duplicate goodreads IDs.
April 29, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from amazon.com record.