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Inspiration for Dune
Dune (first published in 1965) had taken a lot of inspiration from a book called The Sabres of Paradise: Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus, written by Lesley Blanch in 1960.
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Bibliography
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Blanch, Lesley. 2009. The Sabres of Paradise: Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus. London: Tauris Parke.
leto247. n.d. “One of the Books That Influenced Dune the Most.” Accessed August 8, 2023. http://www.jacurutu.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4054.