| Writing style: Vassiliev has an i I read the English translation | |
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| Towards the end of the chapter, I couldn't help skipping a few pages | Methodology: In addition to going through archive material, Vassiliev conducts interviews with relatives, contemporaries, allies, and adversaries, all of which produce some very insightful quotations in the book |
I read the English translation.
| Most of us know him with reference to '73 Oil Embargo ; but Shah Faisal was much more than that | Here are a few positives I could list: 1 |
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| The books explores in great detail Shah Faisal's life , his times , his beliefs and how he had a great impact on the World as we know it now |
Context: Vassiliev has written at least one book on Saudi Arabia's history.
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