From the best-selling author of 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.
Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iranian Hostage Crisis
โ Scribed by Mark Bowden
- Publisher
- Groove
- Year
- 2009;2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 570 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780802143037
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