The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
by Ben Macintyre
Ben Macintyre is the author of several unmissable nonfiction books about spies, including The Spy and the Traitor and Agent Sonya. The Siege is another pacy book, this time about the SAS, the UK’s elite army unit, which rescued hostages from a siege at the Iranian embassy in London in 1980. The book is also interesting on the motivation of the terrorists, who came from a part of Iran that was being repressed by Ayatollah Khomeini’s regime.
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