Accessible account of three thousand years of history from Zoroaster to the Ayatollahs, Xerxes to Ahmadinejad, enlivened by opinions on topics as diverse as Catholicism, Persian poetry, democracy, Islam and the failures of Western diplomacy. If you want to know more about where the Iranians came and are coming from, this is an enjoyable way of doing it.
(Tony Pratt - bwl 58 Autumn 2010 ) |
