James Buchan

A certain tragic allure

Towards Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980), the last or most recent Shah of Iran, there are two principal attitudes.

issue 23 April 2011

  • The Shah

    Abbas Milani

    Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 496

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