Claws of the Crab: Georgia and Armenia in Crisis

by Stephen Brook

Travel book about the disintegration and the rush for independence of the Soviet Union. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1856191613
• ISBN13: 9781856191616
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A rare eyewitness account

Book ReviewBrook, Stephen. Claws of the Crab: Georgia and Armenia in Crisis. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992.This is another treasure of a book about the Caucasus that I unearthed from the bowels of the Wandsworth Public Library system in south London. Only one other person had borrowed it, back in September 1999 when I was working in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. Reading this book, I discovered that Stephen Brook had got there before me when all the exciting stuff was happening at the start of the nineties. Independence from the Soviet Union, the overthrow of the tyrannical president Zviad Gamsakhurdia and the battles for Nagorno Karabakh - Brook was there or thereabouts. Studiedly sympathetic to the Armenians and guardedly admiring of the Georgians, Claws of the Crab is a rare eyewitness account of many of the events that made independent Georgia and Armenia what they are today. Suffice to say that there's been remarkably little change since the book's completion in 1992.