177 reviews for:

The Siege

Ben Macintyre

4.32 AVERAGE

fizzypixie's review

4.5

adventurous dark funny informative tense fast-paced

zee23020's review

4.75

adventurous emotional informative tense

armorcats's review

4.0

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Fascinating and detailed book about an event I can barely remember. I did get a lot of the participants mixed up during the fast-paced siege near the end. Pictures or a detailed outline of the building would have helped, but these might have been available in the physical book. I listened to the audiobook, which was quite well done.

chesterburnett's review

4.5

informative tense fast-paced

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McIntyre chronicles the siege of Iran's embassy in London (which overlapped with the Iranian takeover of the US embassy in Tehran) engineered by Saddam Hussein and providing the Iron Lady an opportunity to show her mettle.

cjkp's review

4.0

informative medium-paced

donnaehm's review against another edition

2.0

emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

teadrinkingrev's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

ksaunders611's review

4.5

informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

jamescridland's review

4.0

informative tense medium-paced

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Very detailed and well researched. Good particularly for me, given I was not old enough to remember the siege itself, so didn’t actually know how it ended! Very well written and a good read.

zackb11's review

4.0

adventurous informative medium-paced