Published by National Geographic, 2009
ISBN 10: 1426205139 ISBN 13: 9781426205132
Oversized Hardcover. Condition: Good. It begins like a Graham Greene novel, Christmas 1978, with a correspondent aboard a plane landing in an ominously empty city ripped by sudden violence. One one side, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the West-leaning but authoritarian and unpopular leader of Iran; on the other, a coalition of angry oposition interests from secular leftists to ultra conservative mullahs, all hunted by SAVAK, the feared and hated secret police. The shah's reperssive policies are common knowledge, but his regime's instablity and the swiftness of his ecplipse will take the world by suprise, as all scatter to safety. This is legendary photojournalist David Burnett's view.