The Worlds of Victor Sassoon Arabian peninsula 'Electric and intimate' Guardian

'Electric and intimate' Guardian

color-filled pages in Richard Scarry's signature style

Determined to unmask the truth behind her queen's murder

swoon-worthy love stories

The Worlds of Victor Sassoon Arabian peninsula 'Electric and intimate' GuardianAn interpretative history of global urbanity in the 1920s and 1930s, from the vantage point of Bombay, London, and Shanghai, that follows the life of business tycoon Victor Sassoon. In this book, historian Rosemary Wakeman brings to life the frenzied, crowded streets, markets, ports, and banks of Bombay, London, and Shanghai. In the early twentieth century, these cities were at the forefront of the sweeping changes taking the world by storm as it