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An edition of Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam (2006)

Guests of the Ayatollah

The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam

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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.

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Atlantic Monthly Press
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English
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680

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Subjects

Gijzelingen, Radicalisme, Chronology, Search and rescue operations, Hostages, Personal narratives, Islamieten, Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981, Buitenlandse betrekkingen, Foreign relations, Armed Forces, United states, foreign relations, iran, Iran, foreign relations, United states, armed forces, New York Times reviewed, 15.75 history of Asia, Diplomatic relations, Gaikokukankei, Rekishi, Terorizumu, Taishikan, Iran, Amerikagasshūkoku, 20seiki, Iran hostage crisis, 1979-1981, United states, army, history, Iran, history

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United States, Iran, Verenigde Staten, Amerikagasshukoku

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20seiki

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Guests of the Ayatollah: the first battle in the west's war with militant Islam
2007, Atlantic, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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Homeinishi no hinkyaku: Iran bei taishikan senkyo jiken to hatenaki sokoku
2007, Hayakawa Shobo.
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
March 13, 2007, Grove Press
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Guests of the Ayatollah
April 25, 2006, Simon & Schuster Audio
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Table of Contents

The "Set-In"
Den of spies
Waiting
One hundred and thirty-two men
Haggling with the barbarians.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
955.05/42
Library of Congress
E183.8.I55 B68 2006, E183.8.I55B68 2006

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680 p. :
Number of pages
680

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0871139251
ISBN 13
9780871139252
LCCN
2005058862
OCLC/WorldCat
62738726

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