Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Very British Coup
Author(s): Christopher de Bellaigue
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 flirt with Communism and nationalise his country's oil industry, for forty years in British hands. This title gives his portrait.
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A brilliant biography of one of the great political eccentrics of modern times - Muhammad Mossadegh
Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971, and was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he read Iranian and Indian Studies. Between 1996 and 2007, he lived and worked as a journalist in south Asia and the Middle East, writing for the Economist, the Financial Times, the Independent and the New York Review of Books. He and his Iranian wife, the artist Bita Ghezelayagh, returned from Tehran to the UK in 2007 so that de Bellaigue could take up a fellowship at St Antony's College, Oxford. They now divide their time between London and Tehran.
General Fields
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- : Vintage
- : The Bodley Head Ltd
- : 01 February 2012
- : 240mm X 156mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 February 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : Christopher de Bellaigue
- : Hardback
- : Hardback
- : 955.053092
- : 955.053092
- : 320
- : 320