The Terror Years From alQaeda to the Islamic State (Audible Audio Edition) Lawrence Wright John H Mayer Random House Audio Books
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Ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS.
With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. This collection draws on several articles he wrote while researching that book, as well as many that he's written since, following where and how al-Qaeda and its core cult-like beliefs have morphed and spread. They include an indelible impression of Saudi Arabia, a kingdom of silence under the control of the religious police; the Syrian film industry, then compliant at the edges but already exuding a feeling of the barely masked fury that erupted into civil war; and the 2006-11 Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza, a study in disparate values of human lives. Others continue to look into al-Qaeda as it forms a master plan for its future, experiences a rebellion from within the organization, and spins off a growing web of terror in the world. The American response is covered in profiles of two FBI agents and a chief of the CIA. It ends with the recent devastating piece about the capture and beheading by ISIS of four American journalists and aid workers, and how our government failed to handle the situation.
The Terror Years From alQaeda to the Islamic State (Audible Audio Edition) Lawrence Wright John H Mayer Random House Audio Books
When one picks up a book like Lawrence Wright’s The Terror Years, they might be expecting an all-encompassing book that takes them from approx. September 11th 2001 till the emergence of ISIS. Lawrence Wright gets there, but it is far from the conventional route. Much of the first part of the book is spent in Egypt detailing the founding of Al Qaeda through a series of longer journalistic pieces rather than one unbroken narrative. Then we get the tactical evolution pieces: Africa embassy bombings, 9-11, and European Terror attacks. This is followed by the evolution? From Al Qaeda to Isis where they agree, disagree, aims, etc.The most heart-wrenching of these pieces is the last 80-100 pages that talk about six people that ISIS beheaded or threatened to behead, their families, and the slightly madcap millionaire-billionaire who attempted to help them when the US government would not or could not up to expectation. As a reader reading page after page of vivid detail both of captivity and the desperation efforts of the families, you want everything to magically be okay, but obviously inside you know it won’t be and it just tears into your soul.
Wright may not tell the story in a conventional way, but he does piece together how we got from Al Qaeda to ISIS.
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The Terror Years From alQaeda to the Islamic State (Audible Audio Edition) Lawrence Wright John H Mayer Random House Audio Books Reviews
I wish they were released. It is really heartbreaking to know how it would end while reading the parents’ struggle to save them.
This is a great compliment to Mr. Wright's "The Looming Tower". I plan on using it in my 9/11 class.
Probably has been well-reviewed by others, but I'm now reading a book on the topic that's holding my attention.
A highly readable and excellent overview of the years of terror that have affected our world. Great as both a primer and a clarifier.
Worth the read. Was expecting an in depth book but this is a collection of the authors essays.
Well Written&worth the read! If you are not at the forefront of this subject this is an easy reading and relatively up to date volume.(. Does not cover the bigger picture)
Good read, but a LOT of overlapping info from the Looming Tower.
When one picks up a book like Lawrence Wright’s The Terror Years, they might be expecting an all-encompassing book that takes them from approx. September 11th 2001 till the emergence of ISIS. Lawrence Wright gets there, but it is far from the conventional route. Much of the first part of the book is spent in Egypt detailing the founding of Al Qaeda through a series of longer journalistic pieces rather than one unbroken narrative. Then we get the tactical evolution pieces Africa embassy bombings, 9-11, and European Terror attacks. This is followed by the evolution? From Al Qaeda to Isis where they agree, disagree, aims, etc.
The most heart-wrenching of these pieces is the last 80-100 pages that talk about six people that ISIS beheaded or threatened to behead, their families, and the slightly madcap millionaire-billionaire who attempted to help them when the US government would not or could not up to expectation. As a reader reading page after page of vivid detail both of captivity and the desperation efforts of the families, you want everything to magically be okay, but obviously inside you know it won’t be and it just tears into your soul.
Wright may not tell the story in a conventional way, but he does piece together how we got from Al Qaeda to ISIS.
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