Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam
Princeton University Press, August 2006. Trade Paperback. 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..... More