A national bestseller, Bowden\'s book First came out in 1979, just as the United States and Iran faced off over nuclear weapons.
Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world..
Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides.
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 takes us inside the hostages\' cells and inside the Oval Office for meetings with President Carter and his exhausted team.
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, na ve captors, and the diplomats working to end the crisis.
They took fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them Hostage for 444 days. embassy in Tehran.
On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.
S.
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.
Now, 26 years later, this book remains timely and important, as Iran and America\'s confrontation with Militant Islam is more complex than ever before.
A national bestseller, Bowden\'s book First came out in 1979, just as the United States and Iran faced off over nuclear weapons
