Guests of the Ayatollah Audiobook (Free)

On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by groundbreaking Iranian innovator Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They got fifty-two People in america hostage and held nearly all of them captive 444 days.

The Iran hostage turmoil was a watershed minute in American history. It had been America’s 1st showdown with Islamic fundamentalism, a confrontation at the forefront of American plan even today. It was also a powerful dramatic tale that captivated the American people, released yellow-ribbon campaigns, produced celebrities of the hostage’s family members, and crippled the reelection campaign of Leader Jimmy Carter.

Tag Bowden tells this sweeping story through the eye of the hostages, their radical, naïve captors, the soldiers sent in the impossible mission to free of charge them, and the diplomats attempting to end the turmoil. Taking listeners in the Oval Office towards the hostages’ cells, Guests of the Ayatollah is certainly a remarkably detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful accounts of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world.