America Held Hostage
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Taken Hostage
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Author : David Farber
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-10
Taken Hostage written by David Farber and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-10 with History categories.
On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive. Thus began the Iran Hostage Crisis, an affair that captivated the American public for 444 days and marked America's first confrontation with the forces of radical Islam. Using hundreds of recently declassified government documents, historian David Farber takes the first in-depth look at the hostage crisis, examining its lessons for America's contemporary War on Terrorism. Unlike other histories of the subject, Farber's vivid and fast-paced narrative looks beyond the day-to-day circumstances of the crisis, using the events leading up to the ordeal as a means for understanding it. The book paints a portrait of the 1970s in the United States as an era of failed expectations in a nation plagued by uncertainty and anxiety. It reveals an American government ill prepared for the fall of the Shah of Iran and unable to reckon with the Ayatollah Khomeini and his militant Islamic followers. Farber's account is filled with fresh insights regarding the central players in the crisis: Khomeini emerges as an astute strategist, single-mindedly dedicated to creating an Islamic state. The Americans' student-captors appear as less-than-organized youths, having prepared for only a symbolic sit-in with just a three-day supply of food. ABC news chief Roone Arledge, newly installed and eager for ratings, is cited as a critical catalyst in elevating the hostages to cause célèbre status. Throughout the book there emerge eerie parallels to the current terrorism crisis. Then as now, Farber demonstrates, politicians failed to grasp the depth of anger that Islamic fundamentalists harbored toward the United States, and Americans dismissed threats from terrorist groups as the crusades of ineffectual madmen. Taken Hostage is a timely and revealing history of America's first engagement with terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism, one that provides a chilling reminder that the past is only prologue.
America Held Hostage
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Author : Pierre Salinger
language : en
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
Release Date : 1981
America Held Hostage written by Pierre Salinger and has been published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Political Science categories.
A behind-the-scenes account of the negotiations to free the 52 hostages held by revolutionary students in Iran.
America Held Hostage
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Author : Don Lawson
language : en
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Release Date : 1991
America Held Hostage written by Don Lawson and has been published by Franklin Watts this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Hostages categories.
Describes how extremist groups and governments have resorted to hostage taking in recent years, and shows how both the Carter and Reagan administrations have dealt with such crises.
America Held Hostage
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Author : Pierre Salinger
language : en
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
Release Date : 1981
America Held Hostage written by Pierre Salinger and has been published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Political Science categories.
A behind-the-scenes account of the negotiations to free the 52 hostages held by revolutionary students in Iran.
October Surprise
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Author : Gary Sick
language : en
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Release Date : 1992
October Surprise written by Gary Sick and has been published by Three Rivers Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
The explosive book that sparked a congressional investigation is now in paperback and updated with new testimony from key participants. Naval veteran Gary Sick was the principal White House aide for Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979-81 and is the author of All Fall Down: America's Tragic Encounter with Iran. Photographs.
Guests Of The Ayatollah
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Author : Mark Bowden
language : en
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 2007-12-01
Guests Of The Ayatollah written by Mark Bowden and has been published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with History categories.
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
October Surprise
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Author : Gary Sick
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 1991
October Surprise written by Gary Sick and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Describes how the Reagan-Bush campaign made a secret deal with Iran to delay the release of the American hostages until after the 1980 election.
Siege Mentality
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Author : Howard Husock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Siege Mentality written by Howard Husock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Embassy takeovers categories.
Rescue Mission Report
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Author : United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Special Operations Review Group
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Rescue Mission Report written by United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Special Operations Review Group and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Communications, Military categories.
The Destined Hour
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Author : Barbara Rosen
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Release Date : 1982
The Destined Hour written by Barbara Rosen and has been published by Doubleday Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Political Science categories.
Former hostage, Barry Rosen, gives a first-person account of the take-over of the American embassy in Iran and his 444 days in captivity juxtaposed with his wife's account of the effect of these events on the families of the hostages.