false 9076 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341m/9076.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341s/9076.jpg Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive 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 fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days.

In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping 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. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides.

Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. </div>]]> 9076 9 22764 2006 Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis, The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam total:527|5:159|4:257|3:102|2:8|1:1| 527 2146 893 92 3098 4.00 4907 632 51265057 1611934 9076 0871139251 9780871139252 80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341m/9076.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341s/9076.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9076.Guests_of_the_Ayatollah_The_Iran_Hostage_Crisis_The_First_Battle_in_America_s_War_With_Militant_Islam 4.07 439 Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive 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 fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days.

In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping 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. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides.

Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. </div>]]> 2006 5 1 false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 10:00:04 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 10:06:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 9615476 157790 9076 0871139251 9780871139252 80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341m/9076.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341s/9076.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9076.Guests_of_the_Ayatollah_The_Iran_Hostage_Crisis_The_First_Battle_in_America_s_War_With_Militant_Islam 4.07 527 Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive 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 fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days.

In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping 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. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides.

Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. </div>]]> 2006 4 1 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 27 13:44:20 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 27 13:49:41 -0800 2007 more...]]> 72126551 1478575 9076 0871139251 9780871139252 80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341m/9076.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341s/9076.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9076.Guests_of_the_Ayatollah_The_Iran_Hostage_Crisis_The_First_Battle_in_America_s_War_With_Militant_Islam 4.07 527 Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive 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 fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days.

In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping 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. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides.

Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. </div>]]> 2006 3 0 false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 11:01:44 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 11:02:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 45462115 1008236 9076 0871139251 9780871139252 80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341m/9076.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341s/9076.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9076.Guests_of_the_Ayatollah_The_Iran_Hostage_Crisis_The_First_Battle_in_America_s_War_With_Militant_Islam 4.07 527 Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive 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 fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days.

In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping 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. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides.

Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. </div>]]> 2006 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:47:40 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:47:40 -0800 2009 Mark Bowden proved he knows how to tell a gripping narrative in Black Hawk Down and Killing Pablo. In this latest book he takes on a story with more immediate topical consequence, with similar results. It's a "painstaking recreation of those 444 days" (Cleveland Plain Dealer), told mostly ...

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In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping 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. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides.

Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. </div>]]> 2006 4 1 false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri May 04 16:53:47 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 18:55:41 -0800 2009 45935001 1985111 55318 0802143032 9780802143037 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170449369m/55318.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170449369s/55318.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55318.Guests_of_the_Ayatollah_The_Iran_Hostage_Crisis_The_First_Battle_in_America_s_War_with_Militant_Islam 4.10 77 Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping 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. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides. Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world.</div>]]> 2006 4 0 false Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Feb 10 09:32:24 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 20 08:17:57 -0700 2009
I picked up the book remembering something about suggestions that the RNC was com...more...]]> 9503587 621422 9076 0871139251 9780871139252 80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341m/9076.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341s/9076.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9076.Guests_of_the_Ayatollah_The_Iran_Hostage_Crisis_The_First_Battle_in_America_s_War_With_Militant_Islam 4.07 527 Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive 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 fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days.

In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping 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. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides.

Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. </div>]]> 2006 4 1 false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Nov 24 22:16:21 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 24 22:30:53 -0800 2007 44324187 1954975 9076 0871139251 9780871139252 80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341m/9076.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341s/9076.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9076.Guests_of_the_Ayatollah_The_Iran_Hostage_Crisis_The_First_Battle_in_America_s_War_With_Militant_Islam 4.07 527 Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive 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 fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days.

In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping 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. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides.

Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. </div>]]> 2006 5 0 false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 15:37:25 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 15:50:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 35321032 1390389 9076 0871139251 9780871139252 80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341m/9076.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341s/9076.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9076.Guests_of_the_Ayatollah_The_Iran_Hostage_Crisis_The_First_Battle_in_America_s_War_With_Militant_Islam 4.07 527 Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive 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 fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days.

In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping 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. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides.

Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. </div>]]> 2006 4 0 false Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Oct 14 16:18:52 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 03 10:55:24 -0800 2009 I have done quite a bit of middle eastern studies, and feel pretty well versed in Islam and the Isl...more...]]> 22556909 1169440 9076 0871139251 9780871139252 80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341m/9076.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341s/9076.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9076.Guests_of_the_Ayatollah_The_Iran_Hostage_Crisis_The_First_Battle_in_America_s_War_With_Militant_Islam 4.07 527 Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive 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 fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days.

In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping 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. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides.

Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. </div>]]> 2006 3 0 false Fri Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 10:56:51 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 13:06:25 -0700 2008
Bowden's surprisingly even handed treatment of the Iranian Hostage crisis has a lot to recommend it. A crisis that spans over 400 days has ups and downs. Bowden devotes equal attention to both the shocking and the...more...]]> 17719590 992137 9076 0871139251 9780871139252 80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341m/9076.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341s/9076.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9076.Guests_of_the_Ayatollah_The_Iran_Hostage_Crisis_The_First_Battle_in_America_s_War_With_Militant_Islam 4.07 527 Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive 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 fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days.

In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping 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. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides.

Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. </div>]]> 2006 3 0 false Tue Nov 18 12:02:44 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 13 21:22:49 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 18 12:02:44 -0800 2008 1.3 more...]]> 15989038 555839 9076 0871139251 9780871139252 80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341m/9076.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341s/9076.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9076.Guests_of_the_Ayatollah_The_Iran_Hostage_Crisis_The_First_Battle_in_America_s_War_With_Militant_Islam 4.07 527 Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive 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 fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days.

In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping 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. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides.

Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. </div>]]> 2006 3 0 false Thu Feb 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 08:42:40 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 09:15:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3132579 160341 9076 0871139251 9780871139252 80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341m/9076.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341s/9076.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9076.Guests_of_the_Ayatollah_The_Iran_Hostage_Crisis_The_First_Battle_in_America_s_War_With_Militant_Islam 4.07 527 Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive 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 fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days.

In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping 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. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides.

Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. </div>]]> 2006 3 0 false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Jul 16 09:51:52 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 16 09:57:31 -0700 2007 New York Times reporter declaiming, "We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other n...more...]]> 43882847 841282 9076 0871139251 9780871139252 80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341m/9076.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341s/9076.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9076.Guests_of_the_Ayatollah_The_Iran_Hostage_Crisis_The_First_Battle_in_America_s_War_With_Militant_Islam 4.07 527 Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive 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 fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days.

In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping 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. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides.

Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. </div>]]> 2006 5 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 21 19:35:35 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 19:39:30 -0800 2009 more...]]> 34942927 1607287 9076 0871139251 9780871139252 80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341m/9076.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341s/9076.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9076.Guests_of_the_Ayatollah_The_Iran_Hostage_Crisis_The_First_Battle_in_America_s_War_With_Militant_Islam 4.07 527 Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive 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 fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days.

In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping 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. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides.

Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. </div>]]> 2006 3 0 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 09 17:10:15 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 10:27:39 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 74258093 2143351 9076 0871139251 9780871139252 80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341m/9076.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341s/9076.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9076.Guests_of_the_Ayatollah_The_Iran_Hostage_Crisis_The_First_Battle_in_America_s_War_With_Militant_Islam 4.07 527 Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive 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 fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days.

In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping 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. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides.

Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. </div>]]> 2006 4 0 false Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 06:35:11 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 06:37:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 76349174 2897854 9076 0871139251 9780871139252 80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341m/9076.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341s/9076.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9076.Guests_of_the_Ayatollah_The_Iran_Hostage_Crisis_The_First_Battle_in_America_s_War_With_Militant_Islam 4.07 527 Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive 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 fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days.

In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping 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. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides.

Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. </div>]]> 2006 5 0 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 31 23:11:22 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 23:22:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 44297658 706193 9076 0871139251 9780871139252 80 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341m/9076.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859341s/9076.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9076.Guests_of_the_Ayatollah_The_Iran_Hostage_Crisis_The_First_Battle_in_America_s_War_With_Militant_Islam 4.07 527 Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive 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 fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days.

In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping 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. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides.

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In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping 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. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides.

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