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The Fall of Reza Shah - The Abdication, Exile, and Death of Modern Iran's Founder (Paperback)
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The Fall of Reza Shah - The Abdication, Exile, and Death of Modern Iran's Founder (Paperback)
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Reza Shah's authoritarian and modernising reign transformed Iran,
but his rule and Iran's independence ended in ignominy in 1941. In
this book, Shaul Bakhash tells the full story of the Anglo-Soviet
invasion which led to his forced abdication, drawing upon
previously unused sources to reveal for the first time that the
British briefly, but seriously, toyed with the idea of doing away
altogether with the ruling Pahlavis and considered reinstalling on
the throne a little-regretted previous dynasty. Bakhash charts Reza
Shah's final journey through Iran and into his unhappy exile; his
life in exile, his reminiscences; his testy relationship with the
British in Mauritius and Johannesburg; and the circumstances of his
death. Additionally, it reveals the immense fortune Reza Shah
amassed during his years in power, his finances in exile, and the
drawn-out dispute over the settlement of his estate after his
death. A significant contribution to the literature on Reza Shah
and British imperialism as it played out in the case of one
critical country during World War II, the book reveals the fraught
relationship between a once powerful ruler in his final days and
the British government at a critical moment in recent history.
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