Guests of the Ayatollah : the first battle in America's war with militant Islam / Mark Bowden.
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 t...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Atlantic Monthly Press,
[2006], ©2006.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | 680 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |