Shaul Bakhash is Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History at George Mason Univeristy, USA. He is the author of Iran: Monarchy, Bureaucracy and Reform Under the Qajars, 1858-1896 (1978); The Politics of Oil and Revolution in Iran (2010); and Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution (1990). His articles have appeared in numerous scholarly journals and books, as well as in the New York Review of Books, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers.

• Table of ContentsChapter I: Solder and King, Reformer and AutocratChapter 2: Britain and the Abdication of Reza Shah Chapter 3: ‘Dear Anthony’, ‘Dear Leo’: Britain’s Quixotic Flirtation with Dynastic ChangeChapter 4: The Journey into ExileChapter 5: Mauritius: ‘A Prison’…A Death in Life’Chapter 6: Johannesburg and DeathChapter 7: Wrapping UpChapter 8: Reza Shah’s Finances in ExileChapter 9: The Settlement of Reza Shah’s EstateChapter 10: A Brief EpilogueNotesBibliography

What is not so well known, and brilliantly described here, is the discussion in London that took place before the installation of Mohammad Reza. ... Bakhash has produced a very personal picture of Reza Shah, gently critical of all hose involved, but understanding of the difficulties and dictates of wartime necessity.