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Black Flags: The Rise of Isis by Joby Warrick
Category: History
WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE for NON-FICTION 2016. In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread to become the world's greatest threat. When the government of Jordan ...Show more
Black Flags: The Rise of Isis by Joby Warrick
Category: History
WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE for NON-FICTION 2016. In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread to become the world's greatest threat. When the government of Jordan ...Show more
Red Line - The Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World by Joby Warrick
Category: Military
In Red Line, Joby Warrick, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Black Flags, shares the thrilling unknown story of America's mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria's chemical weapons and keep them out of the hands of the Islamic State. "A nonfiction thriller."--The Washington Post In August 2012, S ...Show more
Red Line - The Unravelling of Syria and the Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World by Joby Warrick
Category: History
In August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. Concerned that Assad might resort to chemical weapons, the international community warned that any such use would cross "a red line", warranting a military response. When a year later Assad bombed the Damascus ...Show more
The Triple Agent : The Al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA by Joby Warrick
Category: Military
In December 2009, a group of the CIA's top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double-agent who infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent shocking revelations from inside the terrorist n ...Show more
The Triple AgentThe Al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA by Joby Warrick
Category: History
In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Afghanistan to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian who had infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent shocking revelations from inside the terrorist network and now pr ...Show more
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