Ben Macintyre: The Siege
The Siege
Buch
- The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama
- Penguin Books Ltd, 09/2024
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780241675670
- Bestellnummer: 11870444
- Umfang: 400 Seiten
- Gewicht: 750 g
- Maße: 240 x 156 mm
- Stärke: 40 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 12.9.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
'Macintyre does true-life espionage better than anyone else' John PrestonFrom the author of Sunday Times #1 bestsellers COLDITZ, SAS: ROGUE HEROES and THE SPY AND THE TRAITOR . . .
On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate, overlooking Hyde Park in London. There they took 26 hostages, including embassy staff, visitors, and three British citizens.
A tense six-day siege ensued as millions gathered around screens across the country to witness the longest news flash in British television history, in which police negotiators and psychiatrists sought a bloodless end to the standoff, while the SAS - hitherto an organisation shrouded in secrecy - laid plans for a daring rescue mission: Operation Nimrod.
Drawing on unpublished source material, exclusive interviews with the SAS, and testimony from witnesses including hostages, negotiators, intelligence officers and the on-site psychiatrist, bestselling historian Ben Macintyre takes readers on a gripping journey from the years and weeks of build-up on both sides, to the minute-by-minute account of the siege and rescue.
Recreating the dramatic conversations between negotiators and hostages, the cutting-edge intelligence work happening behind-the-scenes, and the media frenzy around this moment of international significance, The Siege is the remarkable story of what really happened on those fateful six days, and the first full account of a moment that forever changed the way the nation thought about the SAS - and itself.
Biografie
Ben Macintyre - Kolumnist der Times. Er war zunächst Redakteur der Weekend Review, bevor er für die Times als Chefkorrespondent nach New York , Paris und Washington ging. Macintyre lebt heute mit seiner Frau und drei Kindern in London und hat mehrere historisch Sachbücher veröffentlicht. Ben Macintyre
The Siege
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