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

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

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 f…

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