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Man with a mission
Charles Glass
3 March 2012
Patriot of Persia Christopher de Bellaigue
Bodley Head, pp.310, 20
He was a Persian aristocrat who struggled to make his country a democracy. Given to mood swings and sulks worthy of Achilles, Mohammed Mossadegh was born in June 1882 just… Read more
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