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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
A Pretext for War	James Bamford	The bestselling author of Body of Secrets and The Puzzle Palace presents his most hard-hitting book to date--a sweeping, authoritative, and fearless account of the failures of America's intelligence …	OL117554W
Kill Bin Laden	Dalton Fury	The firsthand account by a commander of the Army's Tier 1 counter terrorist unit Delta Force on the operation in the mountains of Tora Bora near the Pakistan border. Fury recounts the details of the …	OL11963311W
Beyond Fundamentalism	Reza Aslan	The wars in the Middle East have become religious wars in which God is believed to be directly engaged on behalf of one side against the other. The hijackers who attacked America on September 11, 200…	OL14937140W
Major Farran's hat	David Cesarani	Explores why Britain lost Palestine, linking its counterinsurgency and diplomatic strategies through the role of Roy Farran, commander of British counterterrorism squads, to the abduction of a Jewish…	OL15449167W
Watching the world change	Friend, David	Tells the stories behind the photographs of 9/11, discusses the controversy over whether the images are exploitative or redemptive, and shows how photographs help us witness, grieve, and understand t…	OL15833907W
Your government failed you	Richard A. Clarke	The bestselling author of "Against All Enemies" now looks at why national security failures have continued and how America and the world can succeed against violent Islamist extremists.	OL15841262W
In defense of our America	Anthony D. Romero,Dina Temple-raston	The executive director of the ACLU takes a critical look at civil liberties in this country at a time when constitutional freedoms are in peril. Using the stories of real Americans on the frontlines …	OL15857258W
The Iranian time bomb	Michael Arthur Ledeen	The first salvo was the attack on the American Embassy in Tehran in the fall of 1979. The war continued with the assassination of American diplomats and military personnel in Europe and North Africa.…	OL16063305W
Hizbullah's identity construction	Joseph Elie Alagha	"The important study [title] offers a revolutionary new perspective on the political phenomenon of Hizbullah whose evolution has frequently confounded scholars and politicians. Drawing on his unparal…	OL16489205W
Terror and democracy in West Germany	Karrin Hanshew	"In 1970, the Red Army Faction declared war on West Germany. The militants failed to bring down the state, but this book argues that the decade-long debate they inspired helped shape a new era. After…	OL16557875W
Why geography matters	Harm J. de Blij	"Preparing for climate change, averting a cold war with China, defeating terrorism: all of this requires geographic knowledge. In Why Geography Matters, Harm de Blij makes an urgent call to restore g…	OL1942096W
Captain America and the crusade against evil	John Shelton Lawrence,Robert Jewett	"Arguing that the superhero is the antidemocratic counterpart of the classical "monomyth" described by Joseph Campbell, the authors show that the American version of the monomyth derives from tales o…	OL1945166W
The historical origins of terrorism in America	Robert D. Kumamoto	"When we think of American terrorism, it is modern, individual terrorists such as Timothy McVeigh that typically spring to mind. But terrorism has existed in America since the earliest days of the co…	OL20957480W
A Delicate Balance	Trudy Govier	"Did the world change on September 11, 2001? For those who live outside of New York or Washington, life's familiar pace persists and families and jobs resume their routines. Yet everything seems diff…	OL2220679W
Die neuen Dschihadisten	Neumann, Peter	Wir stehen am Anfang einer neuen Terrorismuswelle. Ihre Wurzel ist die Krise in Syrien und dem Irak. Dort hat der Islamische Staat eine totalitäre Utopie verwirklicht, die gleichzeitig als Trainings-…	OL24805961W
The Way of the World	Ron Suskind	From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America lost its way and at the nation's struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority u…	OL2755489W
The Roots of Terrorism (Democracy and Terrorism)	Louise Richardson	The Roots of Terrorism is the first volume in the new Democracy and Terrorism series, a three volume project intended to explore one of the most pressing issues of our time: how to reconcile the need…	OL2959736W
In Bad Company	Mark S. Hamm	"The dramatic sieges at Randy Weaver's cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, combined with the FBI's reluctance to admit wrongdoing in those tragic confrontatio…	OL3358386W
Checkmate CD (Abridged)	Malorie Blackman	A dramatic and moving conclusion to the award-winning Noughts & Crosses trilogyCan the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noug…	OL4126065W
Al Qaeda	Paul L. Williams	This book explores the history of Islam and the cultural, political, and socio-economic forces that have cultivated an environment that nurtures terrorism and idolizes its leaders. "On September 11,…	OL4644953W