Looming Tower, The Av Lawrence Wright

Looming Tower, The Av Lawrence Wright

Brilliantly written, compelling and highly original, The Looming Tower is the first book to tell the full story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. Drawing on astonishing interviews and first-hand sources, it investigates the extraordinary group of idealogues behind this organization - and those who tried to stop them. The......
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Brilliantly written, compelling and highly original, The Looming Tower is the first book to tell the full story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. Drawing on astonishing interviews and first-hand sources, it investigates the extraordinary group of idealogues behind this organization - and those who tried to stop them. There is the tormented, resentful Egyptian Sayyid Qutb, who was horrified by the godlessness and decadence he perceived in America in 1948, and whose subsequent writings turned him into a martyr for Islamic extremists. There is Ayman al-Zawahiri: a devout student who, by the age of fifteen, had already helped to form an underground jihadist cell. There is the deeply contradictory Osama bin Laden: Saudi multimillionaire turned muhajideen commander, whose interests merged with al-Zawahiri's to form a global terror coalition. And there is the FBI's counterterrorism chief, the flamboyant, cigar-smoking John O'Neill, who found his warnings that 'something big' was coming continually ignored, and would finally meet his fate in the shadow of the Twin Towers. Interweaving this extraordinary story with events including the Israeli-Palestine conflict, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the first attack on the World Trade Center, Lawrence Wright 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 - and reveals the real, complex origins of Al Qaeda's hatred of the West.Wright's brilliantly acclaimed book now includes a new Afterword which covers events that have unfolded since publication, including the death of Osama Bin Laden
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Brilliantly written, compelling and highly original, "The Looming Tower" is the first book to tell the full story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. Drawing on astonishing interviews and first-hand sources, it investigates the extraordinary group of idealogues behind this organization - and those who tried to stop them. There is the tormented, resentful Egyptian Sayyid Qutb, who was horrified by the godlessness and decadence he perceived in America in 1948, and whose subsequent writings turned him into a martyr for Islamic extremists. There is Ayman al-Zawahiri: a devout student who, by the age of fifteen, had already helped to form an underground jihadist cell. There is the deeply contradictory Osama bin Laden: Saudi multimillionaire turned muhajideen commander, whose interests merged with al-Zawahiri's to form a global terror coalition. And there is the FBI's counterterrorism chief, the flamboyant, cigar-smoking John O'Neill, who found his warnings that 'something big' was coming continually ignored, and would finally meet his fate in the shadow of the Twin Towers.Interweaving this extraordinary story with events including the Israeli-Palestine conflict, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the first attack on the World Trade Center, Lawrence Wright 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 - and reveals the real, complex origins of Al Qaeda's hatred of the West. Wright's brilliantly acclaimed book now includes a new Afterword which covers events that have unfolded since publication, including the death of Osama Bin Laden.

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Oppdag "Looming Tower" av Lawrence Wright

Har du noen gang lurt på hva som virkelig lå bak Al Qaedas opprinnelse og utvikling fram til 9/11? Med Looming Tower, The Av Lawrence Wright får du en grundig innsikt i denne samfunnsaktuelle problematikken, fortalt gjennom en gripende og lettlest narrativ.

En unik tilnærming til en kompleks historie

Wright fordyper seg i den turbulente historien bak Al Qaida, og bringer inn fantastiske intervjuer og førstehåndskilder. Gjennom boken møter vi bemerkelsesverdige personer som:

  • Sayyid Qutb: Den egyptiske ideologen hvis skribler inspirerte en generasjon av ekstremister.
  • Ayman al-Zawahiri: Den unge jihadisten som bygde fundamentet for fremtidige terrorhandlinger.
  • Osama bin Laden: Den kontroversielle figuren som forente en global terrorbevegelse.
  • John O'Neill: FBI-agenten hvis advarsler ble ignorert inntil det var for sent.

En reise gjennom historiske hendelser

I "Looming Tower" tar Wright leserne med på en reise gjennom historiske hendelser som den israelsk-palestinske konflikten, den sovjetiske invasjonen av Afghanistan og det første angrepet på World Trade Center. Dette gir en løpende kontekst for hvordan disse faktorene bidro til planleggingen av 9/11.

En uunnvikelig bestselger

Den nye utgaven inneholder også et etterord som diskuterer viktige hendelser etter publikasjonen, inkludert død av Osama Bin Laden. Denne boken er ikke bare en fortelling; det er en viktig komponent i vår forståelse av moderne konflikt og terrorisme.

Spesifikasjoner

  • Forfatter: Lawrence Wright
  • Utgave: 1. utgave
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Sidetall: 0 (se forlagets informasjon for detaljer)
  • ISBN: 9780141029351
  • Vekt: 360 g
  • Innbinding: Heftet
  • Utgitt: 2007

Looming Tower, The Av Lawrence Wright er blant de mest innsiktsfulle bøkene du kan lese for å forstå de skjulte lagene av ekstremisme og terror. Er du klar for å bli forbløffet av fakta og dybde? Ikke gå glipp av sjansen til å skaffe deg denne essensielle boken i dag!

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