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090    DS316.9.S266 |bM65 2013
100 1  Mokhtari, Fariborz L. |q(Fariborz Levaye)
245 10 In the lion's shadow : |bthe Iranian Schindler and his homeland in the Second World War / |cFariborz Mokhtari.
264  1 Stroud : |bHistory, |c2013.
263    201302
300    176 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations, portraits, photographs ; |c22 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
500    Originally published: 2011.
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-169) and index.
520    After the invasion of France in 1940 a junior Iranian diplomat, the aristocratic Abdol-Hossein Sardari, found himself in charge of Iran's legation in Paris, and set about cultivating German and Vichy officials in order to protect the Iranian Jewish community in the country. Alongside the dramatic and romantic narrative of Sardari's life is the larger picture of the betrayal of Iran's neutrality by the Allies, then the eventual handing over of Axis diplomats and citizens to the Soviets "to be interrogated severely."
505 0  Introduction: The diplomat in the lion's shadow -- The country: Rayham the entrepreneur -- The people: From Kashan to Paris -- The unlikely saviour: Sardari and his friends -- Hubris and hypocrisy: "Small nations must not tie our hands" -- The sacrifice: "Everyone has a destiny" -- The terror: The sound of polished books -- The campaign: The list -- The aftermath: "He saved my father" -- Epilogue: "Persia can never go under."
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
600 10 Sardari, Abdol-Hossein, |d1914-1981.
650  0 Righteous Gentiles |zIran |vBiography.
650  0 Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust |zGermany.
655  7 Biographies. |2lcgft
852 0   |bstacks |hDS316.9.S266 |iM65 2013