Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam Menopause and her public role

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Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the Confederate general's birth

Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman

ISBN13: 9780785341024 ISBN10: 0785341021 Material Type: hardcover

Includes 37 color plates

Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam Menopause and her public roleFrom 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