An account of the 444-day Iran hostage crisis describes how a mob of students, inspired by a then-virtually unknown Khomeini, seized the American embassy in 1979, in a chronicle that documents the year they spent as political prisoners, the contributions of such figures as Jimmy Carter and the Shah,
- ISBN10 0316323942
- ISBN13 9780316323949
- Publish Date 27 October 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Little, Brown & Company
- Imprint Little, Brown and Company
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 470
- Language English