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

400 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history politics reflective slow-paced

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Ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path 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.With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Loom...

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