The longest war : the enduring conflict between America and al-Qaeda / Peter L. Bergen ; designed by Carla Jayne Jones.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Free Press, c2011. Edition: 1st edDescription: xviii, 475 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780743278935
- 9780743278942
- HV6432. B47 2011
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Monograph | Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University | HV6432.B47 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 3ACKU000352152 |
“Includes bibliography”—(p. [439]-454).
Contents: Author’s note—Part I : Hubris—Chapter 1 : holy Tuesday—Chapter 2 : explaining 9/11—Chapter 3 : blinking red—Chapter 4 : kicking ass—Chapter 5 : the great escape—Chapter 6 : the destruction of the base—Chapter 7 : the gloves came off—Chapter 8 : home front : the first bush term—Chapter 9 : building the case for war with Iraq—Chapter 10 : the war of error—Chapter 11 : almost losing the war the United States though it had won—Chapter 12 : Al-Qaeda 2.0—Chapter 13 : Al-Qaeda’s Quixotic quest for weapons of mass destruction—Part II : nemesis—Chapter 14 : the United States of Jihad—Chapter 15 : Pakistan : the new base—Chapter 16 : the fall of Al-Qaeda in Iraq and the rise of an Iraqi state—Chapter 17: the Jihad within—Chapter 18. The end of the “war on terror”?—Chapter 19 : Obama’s war—Chapter 20 : the long hunt—Note on sources—Interviewees—Notes—Bibliography—Acknowledgments—Index.