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The 1979 Uprising at Islam's Holiest Shrine
Anchor
September 2008
On Sale: September 9, 2008
336 pages
ISBN: 0307277739
EAN: 9780307277732
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Non-Fiction Religion
In The Siege of Mecca, acclaimed journalist Yaroslav
Trofimov pulls back the curtain on a thrilling, pivotal,
and overlooked episode of modern history, examining its
repercussions on the Middle East and the world. On November 20, 1979, worldwide attention was focused on
Tehran, where the Iranian hostage crisis was entering its
third week. That same morning, gunmen stunned the world by
seizing the Grand Mosque in Mecca, creating a siege that
trapped 100,000 people and lasted two weeks, inflaming
Muslim rage against the United States and causing hundreds
of deaths. But in the days before CNN and Al Jazeera, the
press barely took notice. Trofimov interviews for the first
time scores of direct participants in the siege, and draws
upon hundreds of newly declassified documents. With the
pacing, detail, and suspense of a real-life thriller, The
Siege of Mecca reveals the long-lasting aftereffects of the
uprising and its influence on the world today.
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