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Afghanistan is often remembered as the “graveyard of empires”—a terrain that broke the ambitions of Alexander the Great, Victorian Britain, and the Soviet Union. Yet in The Finest Hotel in Kabul, BBC Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet charts the country’s turbulent modern saga not through battlefields, but through a single, extraordinary vantage point: the Inter-Continental Hotel.
This is an excellent book for readers of all backgrounds, regardless of how much you know about economics.
This is a tough listen. Requires concentration and a few stops and starts to understand and maybe follow up on the subject matter. Not a light-hearted subject, although very interesting if you take your time.
An autobiography that charts the life of a young guy from the east end of London, who, from delivering newspapers as a kid for ÂŁ12 a week, studies at the LSE, and has a mind for mathematics, rapidly climbs to be one of the world's top traders, making his first million by the age of 23.