From the best-selling author of
Black Hawk Down
comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis
On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U. S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans hostage and kept nearly all of them captive 444 days.
The Iran hostage crisis was a watershed moment in American history. It was America's first showdown with Islamic fundamentalism, a confrontation at the forefront of American policy to this day. It was also a powerful dramatic story that captivated the American people, launched yellow-ribbon campaigns, made celebrities of the hostage's families, and crippled the reelection campaign of President Jimmy Carter.
Mark Bowden
tells this sweeping story through the eyes of the hostages, their radical, naive captors, the soldiers sent on the impossible mission to free them, and the diplomats working to end the crisis. Taking listeners from the Oval Office to the hostages' cells,
Guests of the Ayatollah
is a remarkably detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world.
Mark Bowden
is the author of
Road Work, Finders Keepers, Killing Pablo, Black Hawk Down
(nominated for a National Book Award),
Bringing the Heat,
and
Doctor Dealer
. He reported at The Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years and is a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly. He lives in the Philadelphia area.
John Cornwell
Narrated By : Simon Prebble
Publisher : Listen & Live
Runtime : 6 hours
Categories : 20th Century Biographical Social & Economic Military Historical
Our Price : $29.95 $26.96
From the bestselling author of Hitler's Pope comes a gripping, in-depth account of Germany's horrific abuse of science and its consequences-then and now. See full description...
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Joanna Bourke
Narrated By : Various
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 4 hours 45 minutes
Categories : 20th Century Social & Economic British Non Fiction
Our Price : $22.25
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Brian Bahouth
Narrated By : Brian Bahouth
Publisher : Faultline Audio Press
Runtime : 1 hour 12 minutes
Categories : American Pre 1900 20th Century Social & Economic
Our Price : $6.00
A detailed history behind the origins of the City of Virginia highlighting the roots of the area and other influences throughout the years... See full description...
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T E Lawrence
Narrated By : Jim Norton
Publisher : Select Music & Distribution
Runtime : 3 hours 50 minutes
Categories : Classic Literature Autobiography 20th Century World Biographical
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Although Lawrence of Arabia died in 1935, the story of his life has captured the imagination of succeeding generations. See full description...
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James Tobin
Narrated By : Boyd Gaines
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Runtime : 6 hours
Categories : 20th Century Social & Economic Biographical Historical Sports
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To Conquer the Air is a hero's tale of overcoming obstacles within and without. It is the story of mankind's most wondrous technological achievement; and it is an account of the mystery of creativity. See full description...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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