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

**Brand:** lawrence wright
**Price:** 5080 kr
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## Customer Reviews

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    The Terror Timeline
  

*by M***D on Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2018*

When one picks up a book like Lawrence Wright’s The Terror Years, they might be expecting an all-encompassing book that takes them from approx. September 11th 2001 till the emergence of ISIS. Lawrence Wright gets there, but it is far from the conventional route. Much of the first part of the book is spent in Egypt detailing the founding of Al Qaeda through a series of longer journalistic pieces rather than one unbroken narrative. Then we get the tactical evolution pieces: Africa embassy bombings, 9-11, and European Terror attacks. This is followed by the evolution? From Al Qaeda to Isis where they agree, disagree, aims, etc.The most heart-wrenching of these pieces is the last 80-100 pages that talk about six people that ISIS beheaded or threatened to behead, their families, and the slightly madcap millionaire-billionaire who attempted to help them when the US government would not or could not up to expectation. As a reader reading page after page of vivid detail both of captivity and the desperation efforts of the families, you want everything to magically be okay, but obviously inside you know it won’t be and it just tears into your soul.Wright may not tell the story in a conventional way, but he does piece together how we got from Al Qaeda to ISIS.

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    Very misleading title, not half as good as Looming Tower
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2020*

I LOVED Looming Tower but it's apparent within the first few chapters that the Author mails this one in. Looks like most of this is just an amalgamation of his previous work. I also bought this thinking it was a true sequel to Looming Tower about the rise of ISIS from the ashes of AQI but it barely talks about Zarqawi or Bagdhadi and is just a random sampling of stories. Just disappointed bc it could have been so much better. It was still well written and a quick read so not a total dud.

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    Very good
  

*by M***L on Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2019*

Much, but not most, of the text is repetitive from "Looming Towers." That's not bad; in fact, it was somewhat good to reinforce the information from that book.All in all, a book most every American will benefit from reading.With books like this on the market, it's safe to say ignorance is something you do to yourself. There's no excuse to being ill informed.

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