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Author
Series
Killing volume 11
Language
English
Description
"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 fought desperately to stop a third plane from completing its deadly flight plan, America went on war footing. Killing The Killers narrates America's intense global war...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"The [Bush] administration has squandered the opportunity to eliminate al Qaeda... A new al Qaeda has emerged and is growing stronger, in part because of our own actions and inactions. It is in many ways a tougher opponent than the original threat we faced before September 11, and we are not doing what is necessary to make America safe from that threat." No one has more authority to make that claim than Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Widow Lisa Beamer tells the story of Todd Beamer's life and their relationship together and reveals what really happened on September 11, 2001, making Todd a national hero.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 17
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
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Draws on hundreds of interviews and once-secret documents to deliver the untold story of the FBI's secret battles in the war on terror--both outside the United States and inside the U.S. government--highlighting the tensions between the FBI and CIA.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
On September 11, 2001, the world in which we live was changed forever. The assault on the World Trade Center was the most sophisticated and horrifying in series of operations masterminded by Osama bin Laden and his Jihad group - an organization that CNN's terrorism analyst Peter Bergen calls Holy War, Inc. One of only a handful of Western journalists to have interviewed the world's most wanted man face to face, Peter Bergen explains the Jihadist network...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In New York City, a a handful of veteran FBI agents, police officers and investigative journalists had known for years that a terrorist event on the scale of 9/11 was likely. Ironically, one of the men who had been most aware of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden had recently left the FBI, where he had been following the movements of bin Laden and al Qaeda, to become Chief of Security at the World Trade Center. John O'Neill died on that awful day....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs. When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink beanbag chair in the Delta Gamma house to a CIA recruiter, or that she'd fly to the Middle East under an alias identity. The Unexpected Spy is the riveting story of Walder's tenure in...
15) Stronger
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A survivor of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, who helped to set off one of the biggest manhunts in the country's history, discusses his experiences that day and his ongoing mission to walk again after losing both legs.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Based on exhaustive research and unprecedented access to White House officials, CIA analysts, Pakistani intelligence, and the military, this is the definitive account of ten years in pursuit of bin Laden and of the twilight of Al-Qaeda.
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