Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam AUTH-3536187 Christopher Ricks

Christopher Ricks

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Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam AUTH-3536187 Christopher RicksFrom 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. 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