Guests of the Ayatollah : the first battle in America's war with militant Islam /
Bowden, Mark, -1951
Guests of the Ayatollah : the first battle in America's war with militant Islam / Mark Bowden. - New York : Atlantic Monthly Press 2006 - 680 p. : ill., maps 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [643]-656) and index.
Bowden tells the sweeping story of the 1979 Tehran hostage situation through the eyes of the captives, the soldiers sent to free them, the radical, naive Islamist students, and the diplomats working to end the crisis. This is a remarkably detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. www.alibris.com
871139251
Hostages
Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981
Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Iran.
E 183.8.I55 / .B672 2006
Guests of the Ayatollah : the first battle in America's war with militant Islam / Mark Bowden. - New York : Atlantic Monthly Press 2006 - 680 p. : ill., maps 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [643]-656) and index.
Bowden tells the sweeping story of the 1979 Tehran hostage situation through the eyes of the captives, the soldiers sent to free them, the radical, naive Islamist students, and the diplomats working to end the crisis. This is a remarkably detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. www.alibris.com
871139251
Hostages
Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981
Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Iran.
E 183.8.I55 / .B672 2006
