The Siege
The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama
By: Ben Macintyre
Paperback | 17 September 2024 | Edition Number 1
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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Drawing on unpublished source material, exclusive interviews with the SAS, and testimony from witnesses including hostages, negotiators, intelligence officers and the on-site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.
Ben Macintyre is the multimillion-copy bestselling author of books including Colditz, Agent Sonya, SAS- Rogue Heroes, The Spy and the Traitor, Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat and A Spy Among Friends. He is a columnist and Associate Editor at The Times, and has worked as the newspaper's correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington.
Industry Reviews
Macintyre has a knack for finding the most fascinating storylines in history -- David Grann author of The Wager and Killers of the Flower Moon
Macintyre writes with the diligence and insight of a journalist, and the panache of a born storyteller. -- John Banville The Guardian
The definitive account of what happened . . . so gripping that I literally could not put the book down. -- Jack Straw Independent
Unforgettable -- Robert McCrum Independent
ISBN: 9780241675687
ISBN-10: 0241675685
Published: 17th September 2024
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Penguin UK
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.5 x 3.0
Weight (kg): 0.56
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