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

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...

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Main Author: Bowden, Mark, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2006.
Edition:1st ed.
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