Ghost of Freedom
by:
Charles King (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780195392395 (0195392396)
Publish date: November 1st 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 328
Edition language: English
Informative history, decently written, not a page-turner. But now 95% of what I know about the Caucasus region (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Chechnya, Ossetia, the Circassians and so on) is what I gleaned from this book.
The good thing about this book is that it's a serviceable introduction to the Caucasus for anyone who's not terribly familiar with the region. Unfortunately, it's difficult for an English-language reader to progress much further since a lot of the scholarship is in Russian or some other foreign lang...
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