Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant IslamOpen Road + Grove/Atlantic, 1 בדצמ׳ 2007 - 710 עמודים The New York Times–bestselling author of Black Hawk Down delivers a “suspenseful and inspiring” account of the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 (The Wall Street Journal). 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 captive, 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 recreated, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. “The passions of the moment still reverberate . . . you can feel them on every page.” —Time “A complex story full of cruelty, heroism, foolishness and tragic misunderstandings.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Essential reading . . . A.” —Entertainment Weekly |
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in the West's War with Militant Islam <span dir=ltr>Mark Bowden</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2007 |
Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in the West's War with Militant Islam <span dir=ltr>Mark Bowden</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2006 |
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 19 - What are you guys going to advise me to do if they overrun our embassy and take our people hostage?
עמוד 69 - We Muslim students, followers of Imam Khomeini, have occupied the espionage embassy of America in protest against the ploys of the imperialists and the Zionists. We announce our protest to the world; a protest against America for granting asylum and employing the criminal Shah while it has on its hands the blood of tens of thousands of women and men in this country.