War On Terror


The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
The Forever War
Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
The Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightThe Unexpected Spy by Tracy Walder1000 Years for Revenge by Peter LanceOthers Unknown by Stephen        JonesThe Third Terrorist by Jayna Davis
Terrorism in America
46 books — 7 voters

Assumed Identity by Scott McElhaneyExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerA Fall of Marigolds by Susan MeissnerDaylight by Grace A. JohnsonFalling Man by Don DeLillo
9/11 Fiction
27 books — 21 voters

The Memory of Things by Gae PolisnerExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerA Fall of Marigolds by Susan MeissnerWe All Fall Down by Eric WaltersOne Tuesday Morning by Karen Kingsbury
Fiction About 9/11
25 books — 10 voters

George Alec Effinger
Just because your electronics are better than ours, you aren't necessarily superior in any way. Look, imagine that you humans are a man in LA with a brand-new Trujillo and we are a nuhp in New York with a beat-up old Ford. The two fellows start driving toward St. Louis. Now, the guy in the Trujillo is doing 120 on the interstates, and the guy in the Ford is putting along at 55; but the human in the Trujillo stops in Vegas and puts all of his gas money down the hole of a blackjack table, and the ...more
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George Packer
[T]he enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wise or foolish regarding the war on terrorism; it is, rather, the way that the past decade has splintered them away from other Americans. This fracture comes with a steep price: in today's toxic atmosphere, liberals are no less cynical, shortsighted, and parochial than anyone else, and they understand their fellow-Americans just as badly as they themselves are understood. When liberals look at red- ...more
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