The Siege A Six–Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special–Forces Operation That Shocked the World [Audiobook]

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English | ASIN: B0CTN3WG3V | 2024 | 14 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 418 MB
Author: Ben Macintyre
Narrator: Ben Macintyre
A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue attempts of our time-from the true-life espionage master and New York Times bestselling author. 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 tense standoff, one that threatened at any moment to spill into a bloodbath. Policeman Trevor Lock was supposed to have gone to the theater that night. Instead, he found himself overpowered and whisked into the embassy. The terrorists never noticed the gun hidden in his jacket. The drama that ensued would force him to find reserves of courage he didn't know he had. The gunmen themselves were hardly one-dimensional-all Arabs, some highly educated, who hoped to force Britain to take their side in their independence battle against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini. Behind the scenes lurked the brutal Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who had bankrolled the whole affair as a salvo against Iran.