Publisher's Synopsis
The diaries, letters and essays are extraordinary and factual eyewitness accounts of Tabriz and Tehran's social, military and political life in the tumultuous days and years of Iran's Constitutional Revolution and Tabriz's ten-month siege. She recounts the murder of Tabriz's favourite son, Sayyid Hasan Sharifzadeh and the martyrdom of the Presbyterian's young teacher, Howard Baskerville. She brings to life the intercommunal social and political conflicts within the western Armenian quarter of Tabriz and the successes and failures of Iran's march to modernity under British, Russian and American occupations in the first six decades of the 20th century.
