Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century

Author: Christian Caryl Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Few moments in history have seen as many seismic transformations as 1979. That single year marked the emergence of revolutionary Islam as a global political force, the beginning of market revolutions in China and Britain that would radically alter the international economy, and the first stirrings of the resistance movements in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan that ultimately led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. In Strange Rebels , veteran journalist...Read more