Ebook {Epub PDF} The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State by Lawrence Wright

In The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State, Lawrence Wright joins together disparate people, places, and events to create a singular portrait of this generation’s defining conflict. Wright describes his book as “a primer on the evolution of the jihadist movement from its early years to the present, and the parallel action of the West to attempt to contain it” (p. xiii). The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State Knopf, Aug 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. In this new work, 'The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State' () the story is continued and updated. The book is based on ten essays that were published in The New Yorker.

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Pulitzer Prize winner Wright (staff writer, The New Yorker; The Looming Tower), in this collection of riveting pieces first published in The New Yorker, traces the path of terror from al-Qaeda to the so-called Islamic State (ISIS). The book is based on the author's astute observations on many facets of the terror network in the Arab Middle East. When one picks up a book like Lawrence Wright’s The Terror Years, they might be expecting an all-encompassing book that takes them from approx. September 11th till the emergence of ISIS. Lawrence Wright gets there, but it is far from the conventional route. ‎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.