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title: "The Caucasus: An Introduction"
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# The Caucasus: An Introduction

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Engaging and Thoughtful Overview of a Reguon
  

*by S***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 5, 2021*

de Waal writes well and provides a thorough background to present day ( - 3 years and update please with a Silk Road perspective) grounding on a complex region with internal and intra region complexities that mirror politics on the larger stage. Nuanced, unbiased and we'll researched. Great for a traveler who wants to go deeper and for the inquisitive who just wanna know more.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Intreresting  book which needs some serious editing
  

*by A***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 5, 2022*

I'm giving the book itself four stars, but only two stars for the many editing errors, so that comes out to three stars.As far as the book itself, it is an excellent history of the Caucasus troubles, and is not too dense to read.  I have been to many of the countries in the Caucasus, including Georgia and Armenia, and wish I had read the book before.  It does provide excellent insight, although the past and current history of the Caucasus can be summed up by saying "every ethnic group hates every other ethnic group".  It's sad and unnecessary.My big compliant is that there seems to have been virtually no editing on this book.  There are misspelled words, missing words, extra words in sentences, etc.  Why is this important?  Because if the writer wants to be taken seriously as a creditable source of information, the book should not appear to be written by a fifteen year old.  I hope that this is corrected in the next printing.  It's unprofessional and unacceptable for a book of this caliber to be so sloppily edited.

### ⭐⭐ 2.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Inexcusable factual omitions & analysis
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 9, 2022*

I appreciate that the author is writing an "introduction" to the region but some historical events are treated so glibly and the author's analysis of them is so simple that the overall message of a subchapter reads historically false at its worst or incomplete at its best.The author does recognize in the introduction that it's hard not to offend readers when covering the region; and, in trying to minimize offense with a so-called "balanced" view likely offends most everyone.When faced with complexity, the author/journalist should strive to illuminate the complex not simplify it for clarity.  If the task proves too difficult, then perhaps it’s more honourable to not write the book.  My conclusion is that this book adds to the obscurity of the region and it would have been better if this book hadn’t been written.My only recompense, should the author take offense at this review, is to encourage him to try harder next time.I commend the author's readable style but I'd still leave, at lease this edition, to the dustbin.

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