- Hardcover: 480 pages
- Publisher: Allen Lane; First Edition edition (31 Aug 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 071399973X
- ISBN-13: 978-0713999730
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.4 x 4.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
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'Comprehensive and compelling ... a definitive work on the antecedents to 9/11. Essential for an understanding of that dreadful day.'
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'Deeply reported, beautifully written and authoritative'
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Format:Paperback
As others have already said, this is a book of two halves. The early part explains how Al Qaeda came to be, outlining the opinions and beliefs Osama Bin Laden and others adopted. About half-way through the book changes and focuses more on the path to 9/11, detailing how the plot came to be and how everything came together on that fateful day.
Meticulously researched and brilliantly written this reads like a thriller, such is its gripping nature, and yet unlike any thriller it is truly terrifying as you know it is entirely true, and the manner in which the intelligence services in the US refused to cooperate is simply staggering - with a little more willingness to share information the whole plan could have been thwarted.
A truly excellent book. Only one problem though: the pictures weren't in my copy. At the back of the book there is an index of photographs used in the book, and yet there were none in my copy. Maybe I just bought a dud.
Meticulously researched and brilliantly written this reads like a thriller, such is its gripping nature, and yet unlike any thriller it is truly terrifying as you know it is entirely true, and the manner in which the intelligence services in the US refused to cooperate is simply staggering - with a little more willingness to share information the whole plan could have been thwarted.
A truly excellent book. Only one problem though: the pictures weren't in my copy. At the back of the book there is an index of photographs used in the book, and yet there were none in my copy. Maybe I just bought a dud.
Format:Paperback
This is a useful book that tells the story of Al Quaeda from its ideological beginnings in Egypt some 70 years ago. It also tells the Saudi background. This is very good but it becomes more difficult and detailed with more recent events.
The book is well written and has some 80 pages of notes which give the book its authority. The terrorists seem totally deluded but the book is good at demonstrating how they arrived at their peculiar viewpoint and how , by luck and poor work by the various intelligence services their view gave birth to a spectacular terror incident. It also shows that the US reaction whilst understandable was blunt and ham fisted.
I hope that Wright gives us a sequel about the events following 9/11
The book is well written and has some 80 pages of notes which give the book its authority. The terrorists seem totally deluded but the book is good at demonstrating how they arrived at their peculiar viewpoint and how , by luck and poor work by the various intelligence services their view gave birth to a spectacular terror incident. It also shows that the US reaction whilst understandable was blunt and ham fisted.
I hope that Wright gives us a sequel about the events following 9/11
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This is perhaps the most comprehensive book on 9/11 on the market. What I like about it, is that he deals with the idealogical background of Al Qaeda as well, going back to Qtub. The lead up to the catastrophe is dealt with in gripping way. If you are looking for a reason for 9/11 you could do no better than read this book.
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Excellent background material from the US Intell aspect covering some key individuals involved and the in-fighting between the CIA, FBI, etc leading up to 9/11.
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Peerless history of Al-Q up to 9/11. Details precisely what motivated OBL et al to follow paths of delusional self-destruction. Read more
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