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Author Bowden, Mark

Title Guests of the Ayatollah : the Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
Published New York : Grove Atlantic, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (534 pages)
Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Part One: The "Set-In"; Part Two: Den of Spies; Part Three: Waiting; Part Four: One Hundred and Thirty-Two Men; Part Five: Haggling with The Barbarians; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index
Summary A chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America's first battle with militant Islam. On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took 52 Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them captive for 444 days. Journalist Bowden tells the story through the eyes of the hostages, the soldiers in a new special forces unit sent to free them, their radical, naïve captors, and the diplomats working to end the crisis. Bowden takes us inside the hostages' cells and inside the Oval Office for meetings with President Carter and his exhausted team. We travel to international capitals where shadowy figures held clandestine negotiations, and to the deserts of Iran, where a courageous, desperate attempt to rescue the hostages exploded into tragic failure--From publisher description
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Subject Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981 -- Chronology
Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981 -- Personal narratives
Hostages -- Iran.
Hostages.
Iran.
Genre/Form Chronologies.
Personal narratives.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781555846084
1555846084