It is not every day that we come across something in the archive that captures our attention and drives us wild with infatuation, but this actually happened to me when I came across Edward Browne’s The Persian Revolution, 1906-1911. The reddish-brown cover seems pretty plain and doesn’t invite the read into the text, but the books curb-appeal doesn’t really matter because the actual words written in the book will drive any historian insane. Browne’s message throughout the text is of a nation overcoming adversity during a time of strife when all hopes seem lost in early 20th century Iran. The Persian people rose up for the nation’s well-being to overcome the shah’s tyrannical rule and misuse, while fighting two horrible imperial powers known
