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The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda´s Road to 9/11
Lawrence Wright
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Description for The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda´s Road to 9/11
Paperback. Tells the story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. This title investigates the extraordinary group of idealogues behind this organization - and those who tried to stop them. It takes us into training camps, mountain hideouts and top secret meetings to explore how it all fed into the planning and execution of 9/11. Num Pages: 576 pages, 8 B&W Inset. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 1KBB; JPS; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 444.
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This is the definitive account of the run-up to 9/11: from the man who lit the spark of radical Islam in 1948, to those who built up a terror network, and to the FBI agent whose warnings of 'something big' coming were ignored until the Twin Towers fell.
'The Looming Tower is a thriller. And it's a tragedy, too' The New York Times
'The most detailed (and thrilling) account we have of the events that led to the destruction of the Twin Towers' Observer, Books of the Year
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Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141029351
SKU
V9780141029351
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99-99
About Lawrence Wright
Lawrence Wright is a staff writer for the New Yorker and a fellow at the Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law. He is the author of Twins and Remembering Satan, and the co-writer of the movie The Siege.
Reviews for The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda´s Road to 9/11
Wright's brilliantly constructed narrative is head and shoulders above the rest. He knows important parts of the Muslim world (including Saudi Arabia) at first hand, he understands the motors of Islamist militancy ... Moreover, he is a fine writer with an eye for the telling detail. Even those who think they know the story intimately will feel they are ... Read more