About Book:

• Published Date: 01/12/2007
• Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
• ISBN: 9781555846084
• Format B (Medium Format). Very Good

Summary:

The New York Times���bestselling author of Black Hawk Down delivers a ���suspenseful and inspiring��� account of the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 (The Wall Street Journal). 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 fifty-two Americans captive, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days. In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping story through the eyes of the hostages, the soldiers in a new special forces unit sent to free them, their radical, na��ve 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. Wpitals where shadowy figures held clandestine negotiations, and to the deserts of Iran, where a courageous, desperate attempt to rescue the hostages exploded into tragiFormat C (Large Format). failure. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides. Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly recreated, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. ���The passions of the moment still reverberate . . . you can feel them on every page.��� ���Time ���A complex story full of cruelty, heroism, foolishness and tragiFormat C (Large Format). misunderstandings.��� ���Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ���Essential reading . . . A.��� ���Entertainment Weekly

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