TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bowden, Mark,
TI  - Guests of the Ayatollah: the first battle in America's war with militant Islam 
SN  - 871139251
AV  - E 183.8.I55 .B672 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Atlantic Monthly Press 
KW  - Hostages
KW  - Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981
KW  - Iran
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [643]-656) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -