| Edition |
First Free Press hbk. edition. |
| Description |
xx, 473 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [437]-452) and index. |
| Contents |
Holy Tuesday -- Explaining Bin Laden and 9/11 -- Blinking red -- Kicking ass -- The great escape -- The destruction of the base -- The gloves came off -- Home front: the first Bush term -- The war of error -- Almost losing the war the United States thought it had won -- Al-Qaeda 2.0 -- Al-Qaeda's quixotic quest for weapons of mass destruction -- United States of Jihad -- Pakistan: the new base -- The fall of al-Qaeda in Iraq and the rise of an Iraqi state -- The Jihad within -- The end of the "war on terror"? -- Obama's war -- The long hunt. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
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Terrorism -- United States -- Prevention.
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Terrorism -- Prevention.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011.
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Qaida (Organization)
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| ISBN |
9780743278935 |
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0743278933 |
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9781439160596 (ebk.) |
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