The Sabres of Paradise
Subtitle: A magnificent account of the courage, fanaticism, and wild excesses of an almost unknown period of Caucasian history, when the ... the Muslim tribes led by Shamyl the Avar
Publisher: Viking Press
Published: October 3, 1960
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780670614165
First sentence: Today, the name of Shamyl means little outside Russia and the Near East, though there are exiled Caucasian families living in Turkey (among them some of Shamyl's descendants) who still hang his portrait on their walls with all the reverence accorded to an ikon.