178 reviews for:

The Siege

Ben Macintyre

4.32 AVERAGE

rachelisreading91's review against another edition

4.0

medium-paced

seatonob's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

amandacreadsbooks's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

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This is an incredibly absorbing book about the 1980 Iranian embassy siege. If you are over a certain age you’ll have probably watched live as the SAS stormed the building. This is a thorough examination of the backgrounds and characters of all the individuals involved, terrorists, hostages, politicians, journalists, police and army. Only a British run hostage situation could involve consideration of a nesting duck and a small caged rodent.
A brilliant book!
Thanks to the publisher for copy of the book in return for an honest review.

graciefdaw's review

4.0

adventurous challenging medium-paced

ayjay3's review

5.0

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BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week - brilliant, exciting and informative.

thestephsnow's review

5.0

fast-paced

19a's review

4.25

informative medium-paced

jeffallum's review

5.0

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Another brilliantly written book from Ben Macintyre. I couldn’t put the book down, and it’s the first time
I’ve been happy that my train home was delayed as it meant I could read more of it.

sherif's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous informative tense medium-paced

imogensinklings's review

funny informative sad tense