Hostage - The Complete Story Of The Lebanon Captives by Con, Coughlin - 1992-01-01

HARDBACK "HARD TO FIND," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1992* Publisher: Little Brown & Co.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, silver title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £16.99. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top edge and to head of spine. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Three 8 pp. blocks of b/w photos. B/w line drawn maps to intro and facsimile documents to rear.* Pages: 461 pp. text. xxviii pp. appendices & index at rear.* Description: It began in 1984 when the newly enfranchised Shi'ite Muslims seized control of West Beirut. Despite first-hand accounts of the released hostages, there has been no comprehensive study that both explores and explains the overall issues from a combined personal, political and international viewpoint - until this book! A double-page map of the Middle-East with inset map of Lebanon and a double-page street plan of Beirut with numbered markers showing where the 25 kidnap victims were abducted and positions of importance places. The author was chief foreign correspondent for the British 'Sunday Telegraph', a Middle Eastern specialist, and an expert on the hostage crisis.* A FINE copy of the 1st. edition with minimal wear. This is a large and heavy item. A small extra contribution to the cost of carriage is included in the price.*