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Author Bowden, Mark, 1951-

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

Imprint New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, ©2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection Harmon  955.0542 B672g 2006    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st ed.
Description 680 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The "Set-In" -- Den of spies -- Waiting -- One hundred and thirty-two men -- Haggling with the barbarians.
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 hostage 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.
Subject United States -- Foreign relations -- Iran.
Iran -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981 -- Chronology.
United States -- Armed Forces -- Search and rescue operations.
Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981 -- Personal narratives.
Hostages -- Iran.
Armed Forces -- Search and rescue operations. (OCoLC)fst01351893
Hostages. (OCoLC)fst00961631
Diplomatic relations. (OCoLC)fst01907412
Iran. (OCoLC)fst01204889
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Iran Hostage Crisis (1979-1981) (OCoLC)fst00978765
Chronological Term 1979-1981
Genre/Form Chronologies. (OCoLC)fst01423901
Personal narratives. (OCoLC)fst01423843
Chronologies.
Personal narratives.
ISBN 0871139251
9780871139252
9780739475881
0739475886
9780802143037
0802143032
Standard No. 9780871139252 52600
99813084748

 
    
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