Scott Anderson

UNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DEL AÑO SEGÚN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, THE ATLANTIC, THE NEW YORK TIMES Y KIRKUS La gran crónica de la Revolución iraní que destapa la asombrosa candidez del gobierno estado

La gran crónica de la Revolución Iraní y de la reconfiguración del Oriente Próximo que hoy conocemosEn 1977, Irán tenía el quinto ejército más grande del mundo, una floreciente capital en expansión, enormes ingresos petroleros y una policia que silenciaba toda oposicion al regimen. Catorce meses despues, el Sha huia al exilio derrocado por una revolucion religiosa liderada por el ayatola Jomeini. ¿Como Estados Unidos, con vastos recursos y miles de militares en la region irani, no lo vio venir? Con un estilo vibrante, Anderson reconstruye la revolucion historica que prefiguro los futuros conflictos entre las masas religiosas y las elites en todo el mundo.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER If you want to understand the turmoil in Gaza Syria and beyond the Iranian Revolution of 1979 is a good place to start The Times Excellent Telegraph Brilliant Financial Times Exceptional New York TimesA spellbinding narrative history of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and its devastating consequences by the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia Before the revolution the Shah of Iran seemed invincible The world watched in awe as he commanded a huge army and oversaw an economy awash with billions of dollars of oil revenues The regime s secret police had crushed communist opposition and the Shah appeared to have bought off the conservative Muslim clergy inside the country On the international stage Iran had become an invaluable ally to the West during the Cold War But village streets spoke of a different country people derided the Shah as an American lackey and blamed him for economic inequality for spending recklessly on lavish parties and for ignoring the Muslim majority When a volcanic religious revolution erupted led by a fiery cleric named Ayatollah Khomeini the Shah was forced off the throne and into exile How did it all go so wrong Brilliantly brought to life by the Sunday Times bestselling author Scott

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 2014New York Times top ten bestseller 2014Amazon.coms Top Ten History Books of the Year 2014New York Times Book of the Year 2014The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, a sideshow of a sideshow. Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant attention to the Middle Eastern theatre. As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by a small handful of adventurers and low-level officers far removed from the corridors of power. At the centre of it all was Lawrence. In early 1914 he was an archaeologist excavating ruins in the sands of Syria; by 1917 he was battling both the enemy and his own government to bring about the vision he had for the Arab people. Operating in the Middle East at the same time, but to wildly different ends, were three other important players: a German attache, an American oilman and a committed Zionist. The intertwined paths of these four young men - the schemes they put in place, the battles they fought, the betrayals they endured and committed - mirror the grandeur, intrigue and tragedy of the war in the desert.