text The siege : a six-day hostage crisis and the daring special-forces operation that shocked the world
- Summary
- 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 te... Read more
- Contents
- Maps and floor plans -- Preface -- Day one: Wednesday. 16 Princes Gate -- The group of the martyr -- Cobra -- Grapplers -- Revolutionary Guard -- Day two: Thursday. Eavesdroppers -- Cramer's gambit -- Twenty-five hamburgers -- Operation Nimrod -- ... Read more
- Format
- text
- Description
- xxviii, 365 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
- Publisher
- Crown 2024
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| Library | Location | Status |
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| TADL-WOOD | 356.167 MAC in New Non-fiction | On holds shelf |
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