Screen LibraryThe longest war：the enduring conflict between America and al-Qaeda
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Free Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xx, 473 p., [8] p. of plates: ill. , maps ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780743278935 0743278933 9780743278942 (pbk.) 0743278941 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | D815 |
| CLC: | D815.5 |
| Call Number: | D815.5/B495 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-452) and index. 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. 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. |