The RAG Club Member Events – The Siege : An illustrated talk by Ben Macintyre
January 21 @ 18:30 - 20:00
Tuesday 21st January | 18.30 for 19.00 | Lounge Suit | *£27.50 Per Person
*Includes a drink on arrival and after the event
On 30 April 1980, six heavily armed men burst into the Iranian embassy in London and took 26 hostages. For six days millions sat around their televisions and held their breath as the government used every possible lever to achieve a bloodless outcome. Meanwhile in the shadows the SAS planned a rescue code-named Operation Nimrod.
Ben Macintyre is the multimillion-copy bestselling author of Colditz, SAS: Rogue Heroes, Operation Mincemeat and A Spy Among Friends. Ben used previously unpublished source material as well as exclusive interviews with the SAS and testimony from hostages, negotiators, intelligence officers and others to take his readers on a gripping cinematic helter-skelter journey through every aspect of the siege and rescue.
