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Killing volume 11
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English
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"In the eleventh book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard reveal the startling, dramatic story of the global war against terrorists. In Killing The Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers deep inside the global war on terror, which began twenty years ago on September 11, 2001. As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers...
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English
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2008. A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's personal private secretary, Toby Bell,...
Author
Publisher
Etch, Houughton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
121 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
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
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
x, 225 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
xiii, 316 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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. From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden’s compound, operator Mark Owen of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group --...
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English
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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
From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden's compound, operator Mark Owen of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group—commonly
...Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
x, 290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
American veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan offer invaluable firsthand perspectives on what made America’s post-9/11 wars so costly and disastrous.
Twenty years of America’s Global War on Terror produced little tangible success while exacting enormous harm. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States sustained tens of thousands of casualties, expended trillions of dollars, and inflicted massive suffering on the very populations that we...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
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"The moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Gaunt�anamo Bay for 15 years: a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Gaunt�anamo on the eve of its 20th anniversary"--
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xvii, 285 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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...
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