Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad - Brossura

Bergen, Peter L.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0385676794 ISBN 13: 9780385676793

Casa editrice: Anchor Canada, 2013

Riassunto

From the author of the New York Times bestselling Holy War, Inc., the gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man.
     In Manhunt, Peter Bergen picks up where he left off in Holy War Inc. and delivers a taut yet panoramic acount of the pursuit and killing of Osama bin Laden. Here are riveting new details of bin Laden's flight after the crushing defeat of the Taliban to Tora Bora, where American forces came startlingly close to capturing him, and of the fugitive leader's attempts to find a secure hiding place. As the only journalist to gain access to bin Laden's Abbottabad compound before the Pakistani government demolished it, Bergen paints a vivid picture of bin Laden's grim, Spartan life in hiding and his struggle to maintain control of al-Qaeda.
     Bergen takes us inside the Situation Room, where President Obama considers the COAs presented by his war council and receives conflicting advice from his top advisors before deciding to risk the raid that would change history--and then inside the Joint Special Ops Command, whose "secret warriors," the SEALs, would execute Operation Neptune Spear. From the moment two Black Hawks take off from Afghanistan until bin Laden utters his last words, Manhunt reads like a thriller.

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L'autore:

PETER BERGEN is a National Security Analyst for CNN and the author of three previous books about al Qaeda and the U.S.-led war on terrorism. Bergen is also the director of the national security studies program at the New America Foundation and a research fellow at NYU's Center on Law and Security.

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• Editore: Anchor Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0385676794
• ISBN 13: 9780385676793
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336