The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State

by Lawrence Wright

Book Overview

With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that 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. The Terror Years draws on several articles he wrote while...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385352050
• ISBN13: 9780385352055
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.6" x 9.4"