'Unforgettable' Independent 'Fresh and gripping' Telegraph THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES
BESTSELLER 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 Drawing on unpublished source material exclusive interviews with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. 'The pre-eminent historian of the
secret world . . . His books have set the gold standard for accurate historical reporting but
read like heart-pounding thrillers' Mick Herron 'Macintyre does true-life espionage better
than anyone else' John Preston BEN MACINTYRE'S NEXT BOOK REDWOOD IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER
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