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Author
Series
Killing volume 11
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the eleventh book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard reveal the startling, dramatic story of the global war against terrorists. In Killing The Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers deep inside the global war on terror, which began twenty years ago on September 11, 2001. As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st Free Press hbk. ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 473 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Peter Bergen's definitive account of al Qaeda's evolution since 9/11 and the U.S. government's responses.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A leading political scientist examines the dramatic rise in violent extremism around the globe and sounds the alarm on the increasing likelihood of a second civil war in the United States. Political violence rips apart several towns in southwest Texas. A far-right militia plots to kidnap the governor of Michigan and try her for treason. An armed mob of Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists storms the U.S. Capitol. Are these isolated incidents?...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
408 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A critical assessment of the war on terror offers insight into such topics as the decision to invade Iraq, the high number of civilian casualties, and the United States' associations with questionable allies.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The author explores the return of smallpox, eradicated in 1979 but now returning on the black market as a weapon of bioterrorism, and the crusade of three doctors to uncover the mastermind of the 2001 anthrax attacks.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerizing, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the days and months after 9/11, Mitchell Zuckoff, then a reporter for the Boston Globe, wrote about the attacks, the...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of the young Pakistani student who advocated for women's rights and education in the Taliban-controlled Swat Valley, survived an assassination attempt, and became the youngest nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs. When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink beanbag chair in the Delta Gamma house to a CIA recruiter, or that she'd fly to the Middle East under an alias identity. The Unexpected Spy is the riveting story of Walder's tenure in...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xv, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The award-winning journalist presents a searing account of his experiences with being captured and tortured in Syria by al Qaeda for two years, detailing his related witness to Syrian village life.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin Laden. Sea Stories begins in 1960 at the American Officers' Club in France, where Allied officers and their wives gathered to have drinks and tell stories about their adventures during World War II...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 875 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation's cultural superiority, but what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? Covering more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary and racialized doctrine that espoused an unrelenting deployment...
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen original essays from American veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan offer first-hand perspectives on what made America's post-9/11 wars such costly and misguided exercises in futility, documenting how the world's self-proclaimed greatest military power went so badly astray.
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
This is history at its most immediate and moving A marvelous and memorable book.yJon Meacham Had me turning each page with my heart in my throat. There's been a lot written about 9/11, but nothing like this. I urge you to read it.y Katie Couric The Only Plane in the Sky is a stunning and important work chilling, heartbreaking and I cannot stop thinking about it.y Anderson Cooper Readers who emerge dry-eyed from the text should check their pulses:...
