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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
498 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
The man who led the intelligence war that killed Osama bin Laden traces a life of leadership in public service, from his tenure in Congress through his years as director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense.
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
715 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"When the humanitarian lawyer Tom Harrington travels to Haiti to investigate the murder of a beautiful, seductive photojournalist, he is confronted with a dangerous landscape of poverty, corruption, and voodoo."--Publisher's website.
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On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington, D.C.: "Geronimo, Echo, KIA." These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, put paid to Osama bin Laden's three-decade-long career of terror. SEAL Target Geronimo is the story of Bin Laden's relentless hunters and how they took down the terrorist mastermind, told by Chuck Pfarrer, a former assault...
Author
Publisher
Etch, Houughton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021].
Physical Desc
121 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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This graphic novel chronicles the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City through moving individual stories that bear witness to history and the ways it shapes the future.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xiii, 316 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Description
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. Writing under a pseudonym to protect his anonymity, a member of the elite SEAL Team Six provides a behind-the-scenes, first-person account of all his dangerous assignments around the globe, including the training, planning and execution of his most important...
28) Obama's wars
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xviii, 441 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Woodward shows Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret war in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
392 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
"In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. Radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, used the crisis to further a long-held agenda to enhance presidential powers to a degree never known in U.S. history, and...
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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
xviii, 766 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
A former national security advisor and Secretary of State offers the compelling story of her eight years serving at the highest levels of government, including the difficult job she faced in the wake of 9/11.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xlii, 502 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Description
Over a thirty-five year career, Daniel Bolger rose through the army infantry to become a three-star general, commanding in both theaters of the U.S. campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. He participated in meetings with top level military and civilian players, where strategy was made and managed. At the same time, he regularly carried a rifle alongside rank-and-file soldiers in combat actions, unusual for a general. Now, as a witness to all levels of...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xviii, 428 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"An examination of the profound impact that the War on Terror had in pushing American politics and society in an authoritarian direction for an entire generation, at home and abroad, the United States has waged an endless conflict known as the War on Terror. In addition to multiple ground wars, it has pioneered drone strikes and industrial-scale digital surveillance, as well as detaining people indefinitely and torturing them. These conflicts have...
33) The red circle: my life in the Navy SEAL Sniper Corps and how I trained America's deadliest marksmen
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
380 p., [16] : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Brandon Webb's experiences in the world's most elite sniper corps are the stuff of legend. From his grueling years of training in Naval Special Operations, to his combat tours in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan, The Red Circle provides a rare and personal look at the inner workings of the US military through the eyes of a covert operations specialist. Yet it is Webb's distinguished second career designing new post-9/11 sniper training courses that...
34) The Mauritanian
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
lii, 410 pages ; 21 cm
Description
The author documents his imprisonment in Guantánamo Bay Naval Base as a political prisoner, his torture and mistreatment at the hands of U.S. officials, and his court-ordered release in 2016 after never being charged with a crime.
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Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
x, 133 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
A graphic novel of the report of the 9/11 Commission reveals the Commission's findings regarding the terrorist attacks on the United States and its recommendations concerning what the United States government needs to do in its wake.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
241 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
When he was just twenty-three, a recent graduate of Stanford University, Richard Engel set off to Cairo with $2,000 and dreams of being a reporter. Shortly thereafter he was working freelance for Arab news sources and got a call that a busload of Italian tourists were massacred at a Cairo museum. This was his first view of the carnage these years would pile on. Over two decades, Engel has been under fire, blown out of hotel beds, and taken hostage....
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xvii, 285 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"War corrupts. Endless war corrupts absolutely. Ever since 9/11 America has fought an endless war on terror, seeking enemies everywhere and never promising peace. In Pay Any Price, James Risen reveals an extraordinary litany of the hidden costs of that war: from squandered and stolen dollars, to outrageous abuses of power, to wars on normalcy, decency, and truth. In the name of fighting terrorism, our government has done things every bit as shameful...
Series
Iron weed film club volume no. 34
Publisher
Iron Weed Film Club
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (149 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two films unveil hidden agendas and buried stories behind the catastrophe of 9/11/01, an event that continues to drive a radicalized U.S. foreign policy and to rationalize the curtailment of civil rights and social programs at home. 9/11 : press for truth tells the story of the "Jersey Girls," four widows whose relentless search for answers eventually brought about an independent investigation into the tragedy, the 9/11 Commission. The film is partly...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiii, 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"The moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Gaunt?namo Bay for 15 years: a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Gaunt?namo on the eve of its 20th anniversary"--
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