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(0)Peter Bergen
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man.
It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of Holy War, Inc., the story of Osama bin Laden—whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan—and his declaration of war on America. The book became a New York Times bestseller and the essential portrait of the most formidable terrorist enterprise of...
It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of Holy War, Inc., the story of Osama bin Laden—whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan—and his declaration of war on America. The book became a New York Times bestseller and the essential portrait of the most formidable terrorist enterprise of...
Author
Publisher
Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Grappling with centuries-old feuds, defeating a shrewd insurgency, and navigating the sometimes paralyzing bureaucracy of the U.S. military are issues that prompt sleepless nights for both policy makers in Washington and soldiers at war, albeit for different reasons. Few, however, have dealt with these issues in the White House situation room and on the front line. Michael G. Waltz has done just that, working as a policy advisor to Vice President...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From one of America's preeminent national security journalists, an explosive, news-breaking account of Donald Trump's collision with the American national security establishment, and with the world It is a simple fact that no president in American history brought less foreign policy experience to the White House than Donald J. Trump. The real estate developer from Queens promised to bring his brash, zero-sum swagger to bear to cut through America's...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The world's leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the definitive biography of a man who set the course of American foreign policy for the 21st century, and whose ideological heirs we continue to battle today"--
Bergen sheds light on bin Laden's many contradictions: he was the son of a billionaire, yet insisted his family live like paupers. He adored his wives and children, depending on two of his wives, both of whom had PhDs,...
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Based on exhaustive research and unprecedented access to White House officials, CIA analysts, Pakistani intelligence, and the military, this is the definitive account of ten years in pursuit of bin Laden and of the twilight of al-Qaeda.
10) Manhunt
Publisher
HBO Documentary Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The May 1, 2011 raid on Abbottabad, Pakistan that culminated in the killing of Osama bin Laden took 40 minutes. The CIA's hunt for binLaden took two decades. An official selection of the 2013 Sundance Festival, Manhunt tells the remarkable true story of the nearly 20-year pursuit of the world's most notorious terrorist. Directed by Emmy-nominee Greg Barker, the film features testimony and recollections - some shared for the first time - from top...
