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"To celebrate the last night of a business trip to Moscow, Vesselin Nedkov and a friend picked up two tickets to the hottest show in town: the groundbreaking Broadway-style musical Nord-Ost. Halfway through the show, his life was changed forever as forty Chechen terrorists, including eighteen female suicide bombers, took over the building and held eight hundred people hostage for two and a half days." "57 Hours is Nedkov's harrowing account of being trapped between two dangerously unpredictable forces: inside the theatre, the Chechens, loaded with explosives, demanded the withdrawal of all…
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1 edition- Hardcover · English · 2004Penguin Global · 256 pages · 9780670044351
BiographiesChechni︠a︡ (Russia) Civil War, 1994-HistoryMoscow (Russia)OtagesTerrorismHostagesRussia (federation), biography






