The Five Crowns: Royals in War and Revolution from Athens to Tehran

by Andrew Scott Cooper

A new history of post-WWII Middle East told through the rise and fall of five royal houses.

Long before Saddam, Khomeini and bin Laden brought terror and extremism to the region the Near East was the birthplace of monarchy and empire. As the Second World War came to a close and the Cold War proxy battles began, five monarchies in the region were on the brink. Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Greece (an overlooked, yet integral...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541701321
• ISBN13: 9781541701328
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 320 Pages