Yellow Ribbon: the Secret Journal of Bruce Laingen: 444 Days as a Hostage - Hardcover

Laingen, L. Bruce

 
9780028810300: Yellow Ribbon: the Secret Journal of Bruce Laingen: 444 Days as a Hostage

Synopsis

In November 1979 the US embassy in Tehran was seized by militants, who took the occupants hostage. Bruce Laingen, the senior American diplomat in Iran, was imprisoned for 444 days, and wrote this account on scraps of paper, smuggled out with the help of diplomats who were allowed to visit him.

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Synopsis

The highest-ranking American diplomat taken hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran in November, 1979, records his thoughts on his ordeal in a journal kept secretly during his captivity.

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