The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State by Lawrence Wright

The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State

Lawrence Wright

464 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history politics reflective slow-paced

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These powerful investigative pieces, which take us from the religious police of Saudi Arabia to the rise of the Islamic State, comprise an essential primer on jihadist movements in the Middle East--and the attempts of the West to contain them. In ...

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