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1. The siege: a six-day hostage crisis and the daring special-forces operation that shocked the world

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Author:
Macintyre, Ben, 1963-
Average Rating:
5 stars
Formats:
Book, Large Print
Description:
"As the American hostage crisis in Iran boiled into its seventh month in the spring of 1980, six heavily armed gunman barged into the Iranian embassy in London, taking twenty-six hostages. What followed over the next six days was an increasingly tense standoff, one that threatened at any moment to spill into a bloodbath. ... As police negotiators pressed the gunmen, rival protestors clashed violently outside the embassy, and as MI6 and the CIA scrambled...