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The Terror Years audiobook
- By: Lawrence Wright
- Narrator: John H. Mayer
- Category: General, History, Middle East
- Length: 1 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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The Terror Years Audiobook Summary
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. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that 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.
The Terror Years draws on several articles he wrote while researching The Looming Tower, as well as many that he’s written since, following where and how al-Qaeda and its core cultlike beliefs have morphed and spread. They include a portrait of the “man behind bin Laden,” Ayman al-Zawahiri, and the tumultuous Egypt he helped spawn; an indelible impression of Saudi Arabia, a kingdom of silence under the control of the religious police; the Syrian film industry, at the time compliant at the edges but already exuding a feeling of the barely masked fury that erupted into civil war; the 2006–11 Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza, a study in the disparate value of human lives. Other chapters examine 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 worldwide terror. The American response is covered in profiles of two FBI agents and the head of the intelligence community. The book ends with a devastating piece about the capture and slaying by ISIS of four American journalists and aid workers, and our government’s failed response.
On the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, The Terror Years is at once a unifying recollection of the roots of contemporary Middle Eastern terrorism, a study of how it has grown and metastasized, and, in the scary and moving epilogue, a cautionary tale of where terrorism might take us yet.
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The Terror Years Full Details
| Narrator | John H. Mayer |
| Length | 1 hours 23 minutes |
| Author | Lawrence Wright |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 30, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780804165457 |
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The publisher of the The Terror Years is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: islamic books, awards, award winning books, lawrence wright, war, foreign affairs, pulitzer prize winners nonfiction, pulitzer prize winners, gifts for history buffs, world history, us history, geopolitics, political books, politics, islam, lawrence wright books, journalism, terrorism, the looming tower by lawrence wright, the looming tower, ISIS, Terrorist, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Israel, Palestine, Gaza, FBI, September 11, Twin Towers, Osama bin Laden, nonfiction, journalist, terrorist networks, jihadism, Ali Soufan, History, Middle East, General, History, Modern, 21st Century, Political Science, Terrorism The BISAC Subject Code is General, History, Middle East
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The publisher of the The Terror Years is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780804165457.
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