| In this personal, forthright, and revealingaccount, David Jacobsen spells out, for thefirst time anywhere, the who, what, when,where, how and why of the Middle East hos-tage crisis-from inside and out. At the time of his abduction on May 28,1985, the author was director of the Amer-ican University of Beirut s Medical Cen-ter. He was released seventeen tortuousmonths later; it was to be nearly four yearsbefore any of his fellow hostages were freed.In Hostage, he reveals the identities of theterrorist leaders in Beirut. He discusses hisrelease in exchange for missiles, and whathe sees as the overall failure of America santi-terrorism and hostage-rescue policies.He tells of the often conflicting, andwrenching, relationships among the hos-tages themselves as well as their interac-tions with their captors. |
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