James Buchan

Tensions that disrupt the world

In 1981, two books on Saudi Arabia were published within days of each other: The House of Saud by David Holden and Richard Johns and The Kingdom by Robert Lacey.

  • Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists

    Robert Lacey

    Hutchinson, pp. 404

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