TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - Guests of the Ayatollah :the first battle in America's war with militant Islam /
DA  - c2006.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Bowden, Mark,
ET  - 1st ed.
CN  - E183.8.I55
CN  - E183.8.I55
PB  - Atlantic Monthly Press,
PP  - New York :
PY  - c2006.
ID  - 310350
KW  - Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981
KW  - Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981
KW  - Hostages
SN  - 0871139251
SN  - 9780871139252
TI  - Guests of the Ayatollah :the first battle in America's war with militant Islam /
ER  -