Shah of Shahs

Name: Shah of Shahs
Author: Ryszard Kapuściński

by Ryszard Kapuściński

Account of the Iranian revolution and fall of the Shah regime

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Ryszard Kapuściński

Kapuściński was the greatest literary journalist of the 20th century, reporting on the collapse of empires and the birth of nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America with the precision of a historian and the lyricism of a poet.

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