Guests of the Ayatollah : the first battle in America's war with militant Islam / Mark Bowden.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press 2006Description: 680 p. : ill., maps 24 cmISBN:
  • 871139251
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E 183.8.I55 .B672 2006
Summary: 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
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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

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