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Murder in Samarkand : A British Ambassador's Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror
by Murray, Craig
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- first
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- Nice Copy
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 2006. 1st edition. Nice Copy. octavo. dust jacket 400pp., colour & b/w plates, map, notes, bibliog., index, ÔCraig Murray was the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Uzbekistan until he was removed from his post in October 2004 after exposing appalling human rights abuses by the US-funded regime of President Islam Karimov. In this candid and at times shocking memoir, he lays bare the dark and dirty underside of the War on Terror. In Uzbekistan, the land of Alexander the Great and Tamburlaine, lurks one of the most hideous tyrannies on earth.Õ PublisherÕs mark on bottom edge o/w nice copy
Synopsis
Craig Murray was born in 1958. He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1984 and served in Nigeria, Poland and Ghana, before being appointed Ambassador to Uzbekistan in 2002. He retired from the Civil Service in 2005. He now lives in London, where he works as a writer and broadcaster.
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- Andrew Barnes Booksellers
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- Title
- Murder in Samarkand : A British Ambassador's Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror
- Author
- Murray, Craig
- Book Condition
- Used - Nice Copy
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Mainstream Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- octavo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Other 20th Century;
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