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The Caucasus is a new updated version of an essential guide that has introduced thousands of readers to a complex and fascinating region. Thomas de Waal gives a brief and stimulating portrait of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, their multi-layered history, seemingly intractable conflicts and complex politics.

The destruction of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 was the greatest atrocity of World War I. Around one million Armenians were killed, and the survivors were scattered across the world. Although it is now a century old, the issue of what most of the world calls the Armenian Genocide of 1915 is still a live and divisive issue that mobilizes Armenians across the world, shapes the identity and politics of modern Turkey, and has consumed the attention of U.S. politicians for years. In Great Catastrophe, the eminent scholar and reporter Thomas de Waal looks at the aftermath and...

-Brilliant.---Time -Admirable, rigorous. De Waal is] a wise and patient reporter.---The New York Review of Books -Never have all the twists and turns, sad carnage, and bullheadedness on all side been better described--or indeed, better explained...Offers a deeper and more compelling account of the conflict than anyone before.---Foreign Affairs Since its publication in 2003, the first edition of Black Garden has become the definitive study of how Armenia and Azerbaijan, two southern Soviet republics, were pulled into a conflict that helped bring them to...

- A] gripping narrative of war, politics, and diplomacy.---New York Times Book Review

The war in Chechnya left us with some of the most harrowing images in recent times: a modern European city bombed to ruins while its citizens cowered in bunkers; mass graves; mothers combing the hills for their missing sons.

The product of investigative and on-the-scene reporting by two established journalists, Carlotta Gall and Thomas de Waal's captivating book recounts the story of the Chechens' violent struggle for independence, and the Kremlin politics that precipitated it. Exploring...