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Whirlwind is a novel by James Clavell, first published in 1986. It forms part of the Asian Saga and is chronologically the last book in the series. Set in Iran in early 1979, it follows the fortunes of a group of Struan's helicopter pilots, Iranian officials and oil men and their families in the turmoil surrounding the fall of the Iranian monarchy and the rise of the Ayatollah Khomeini .
- James Clavell
- 1986
Of all the Asian Saga books, it’s the one I can relate to most personally, as I was already alive as the events of “Whirlwind” took place—granted, I was only 4 years old in 1979, but by 1980 I was already paying attention to world events on the news, and by the time the book was published I was quite aware of the events in then Ayatollah Khomeini-ruled Iran, this awareness being ...
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A short summary of Eugenia Ginzburg's Journey into the Whirlwind. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Journey into the Whirlwind.
- Yevgenia Ginzburg
- 1967
Deadhouse Gates is an epic fantasy novel by Canadian writer Steven Erikson, the second installment in his Malazan Book of the Fallen series. It follows the events of the first novel, Gardens of the Moon, and takes place simultaneously with the events of the third novel, Memories of Ice.
Nov 10, 1986 · Clavell's fifth novel in his Asian saga (King Rat, Tai-Pan, Shogun, Noble House) is a 1,216-page superblockbuster adventure story set in revolutionary Iran, between February 9 and March 4, 1979, long before the hostage crisis but with Shah Pahlavi just having left the country and Khomeini waiting in the wings. Scot Gavallan, son of the chairman and managing director of S-G, a Britishrun ...
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Journey into the Whirlwind, Evgenia Ginzburg Journey into the Whirlwind is the English title of the memoir by Eugenia Ginzburg. It was published in English in 1967, some thirty years after the story begins.
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A Telephone Call at Dawn. The year 1937 actually begins on December 1, 1934, when, at four o’clock in the morning, the telephone rings. Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg answers it.
