This month marks the 26th anniversary of the Desert One Debacle. For those of you either too young to remember, or old enough that Alzheimer's has set in, Desert One was the landing site for the failed mission to rescue the hostages at the American Embassy in Tehran, Iran.
Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down has written a new account of the Iranian Hostage Crisis called Guests of the Ayatollah which will soon be released. For those of you only interested in the military end of things, the rescue mission segment is excepted in the current issue of The Atlantic, and available online.
Other books detailing the rescue mission include Delta Force by Charlie Beckwith, and Inside Delta Force by Eric L. Haney. Harder to find is The Guts to Try by James Kyle.
Yes, Mark Bowden has sold the movie rights to this book too. Who will play Chargin' Charlie?
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