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100 1 $aBowden, Mark,$d1951-
245 10 $aGuests of the Ayatollah :$bthe first battle in America's war with militant Islam /$cMark Bowden.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAtlantic Monthly Press,$cc2006.
300 $a680 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aA 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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650 0 $aIran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981$vChronology.
651 0 $aUnited States$xArmed Forces$xSearch and rescue operations.
650 0 $aIran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981$vPersonal narratives.
650 0 $aHostages$zIran.
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