The Resource Guests of the Ayatollah : the first battle in America's war with militant Islam, Mark Bowden
Guests of the Ayatollah : the first battle in America's war with militant Islam, Mark Bowden
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The item Guests of the Ayatollah : the first battle in America's war with militant Islam, Mark Bowden represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.
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- Summary
- 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 them hostage for 444 days. Journalist Bowden tells the 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.--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 680 pages
- Isbn
- 9780871139252
- Label
- Guests of the Ayatollah : the first battle in America's war with militant Islam
- Title
- Guests of the Ayatollah
- Title remainder
- the first battle in America's war with militant Islam
- Statement of responsibility
- Mark Bowden
- Subject
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- trueTheocracy
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Iran
- United States -- Armed Forces | Search and rescue operations
- trueAmericans in Iran
- Fundamentalism
- Hostages -- Iran
- Hostages -- United States
- Iran -- Foreign relations -- United States
- Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981
- Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981 -- Chronology
- Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981 -- Personal narratives
- Islam
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 them hostage for 444 days. Journalist Bowden tells the 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.--From publisher description
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1951-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bowden, Mark
- Dewey number
- 955.05/42
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- E183.8.I55
- LC item number
- B68 2006
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- United States
- Iran
- Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981
- United States
- Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981
- Hostages
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Guests of the Ayatollah : the first battle in America's war with militant Islam, Mark Bowden
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 680 pages
- Isbn
- 9780871139252
- Lccn
- 2005058862
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 9780871139252
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- 62738726
- Label
- Guests of the Ayatollah : the first battle in America's war with militant Islam, Mark Bowden
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 680 pages
- Isbn
- 9780871139252
- Lccn
- 2005058862
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 9780871139252
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- 62738726
Subject
- trueTheocracy
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Iran
- United States -- Armed Forces | Search and rescue operations
- trueAmericans in Iran
- Fundamentalism
- Hostages -- Iran
- Hostages -- United States
- Iran -- Foreign relations -- United States
- Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981
- Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981 -- Chronology
- Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981 -- Personal narratives
- Islam
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