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Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"German intelligence agent Gunther Bachmann (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in his final starring role) must race against time to solve a perilous mystery: Is the half-Chechen, half-Russian Muslim who's surfaced in Hamburg a victim seeking refuge, or a terrorist seeking revenge?"--Container.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a liberal judge releases four al-Qaeda terrorists, they slip away from CIA surveillance and disappear into the mountains of Pakistan, and soon the CIA learns that an attack on the U.S. mainland is imminent, an attack that can only be stopped by retired Navy SEAL Mack Bedford.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mark Owen's No Easy Day focused on the high-profile targets and headline-grabbing chapters of the author's thirteen deployments in his thirteen years as a Navy SEAL. His follow-up, No Hero, offers a rare counterpoint: an intimate account of Owen's most personally meaningful missions, missions that never made headlines, including the moments in which he learned the most about himself and his teammates in both success and failure.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A half-starved young Russian man claiming to be a devout Muslim, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, and a sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank based in Hamburg form an unlikely alliance as the rival spies of Germany, England and America scent a sure kill in the "War on Terror," and converge upon the innocents.
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After an unsuccessful and bloody raid in Istanbul, two Turkish anti-terrorist agents are sent to New York City on a mission to capture a notorious terrorist known only as Dejjal (Arabic for Anti-Christ). Working with the FBI and NYPD, the agents orchestrate the arrest of a suspect who may or not be the notorious Dejjal, but when events escalate, the foreign agents must take things in their own hands to avert disaster.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A former FBI special agent offers an insider's account of how the September 11th attacks could have been prevented, as well as his role in the war on terror, including his highly effective interrogation efforts.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Gallery Books hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
They are the Outcasts. Because people don't want to know what they do. Alex Brandenburg: SEAL Chief Petty Officer and Outcasts Team Leader. Disobeyed direct orders by refusing to let a deadly terrorist live to kill another day. Francisco "Pancho" Rodriguez and John Landry: SEAL Petty Officers First Class. Took the pursuit of justice into their own hands with explosive results. Catherine "Cat" Fares. Navy Petty Officer. Holds an unbeatable record for...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In direct defiance of the President's orders, Navy Master Chief Gil Shannon, one of Americas most lethal SEAL snipers, launches a bold mission comprised of SEAL Team Six and Delta Force fighters to free a captured female helicopter pilot being held by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
The author recounts the first 500 days after 9/11, laying bare the harrowing decisions, deceptions, and delusions of the eighteen months that changed the world forever. "500 Days" also includes reported details about warrantless wiretapping, the anthrax attacks and investigations, and conflicts between Washington and London.
Author
Publisher
Blackside Concepts
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
This book "is much more than the true, first-person accounts of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the Global War on Terror. Between these pages are the heartfelt, first-hand accounts from, and about, the men who lived, fought, and died for their country, their Regiment, and each other. Objective Rhino, Haditha Dam, recovering Jessica Lynch, the hunt for Zarqawi, the recovery of Extortion 17 and everything in between... These stories have been told many...
Author
Series
Actual times volume V. 4
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Narrates the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, from the plane hijackings to the collapse of the World Trade Center.
18) Camp X-ray
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A young soldier is stationed as a guard at Guantanamo Bay where she strikes up an unusual and potentially dangerous friendship with a detainee who has been imprisoned for eight years.
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Presents high school students with multiple points of view on the Terrorist Attack of September 11, 2001, with an emphasis on non-U.S. perspectives, offering basic historical information about this significant event, examining the controversies surrounding it and providing first-person narratives from people who lived through or were impacted by the attack.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Far from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States and al-Qaeda are fighting a clandestine war of drones and suicide bombers in an unforgiving corner of Arabia. The Last Refuge charts the rise, fall, and resurrection of al-Qaeda in Yemen over the last thirty years, detailing how a group that the United States once defeated has now become one of the world's most dangerous threats. An expert on Yemen who has spent years on the ground...