The Longest War (86 page)

Feroz Ali Abbasi, Guantánamo Bay Prison Memoirs, 2002–2004. Author’s collection.

Gary Ackerman and Jeremy Tamsett (eds.),
Jihadists and Weapons of Mass Destruction
(Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2009).

Matthew Alexander,
How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq
(New York: Free Press, 2008).

Ali Allawi,
The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
(New York: Yale University Press, 2007).

Graham Allison,
Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe
(New York: Henry Holt, 2004).

Anonymous (Michael Scheuer).
Through Our Enemies’ Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America
(Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s Inc., 2003).

Abdullah Azzam,
Defense of Muslim Lands, The Most Important Personal Duty
(published in booklet form by Modern Mission Library, Amman, 1984).

James Bamford,
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies
(New York: Doubleday, 2004).

Moazzam Begg.
Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim’s Journey to Guantánamo and Back
(London: Free Press, 2006).

Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon,
Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam’s War Against America
(New York: Random House, 2002).

Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon,
The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right
(New York: Macmillan, 2006).

Gina Bennett,
National Security Mom: Why “Going Soft” Will Make America Strong
(Deadwood, Oregon: Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, 2009).

Owen Bennett-Jones.
Pakistan: Eye of the Storm
(New Haven, CT: Yale, 2002).

Peter Bergen,
Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden
(New York: Free Press, 2001).

Peter Bergen,
The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al-Qaeda’s Leader
(New York: Free Press, 2006).

Paul Berman,
Terror and Liberalism
(New York: Norton, 2003).

Gary Berntsen and Ralph Pezzullo,
Jawbreaker: The Attack on bin Laden and al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA’s Key Field Commander
(New York: Crown, 2005).

Eric Blehm,
The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan
(New York: Harper, 2010).

Philip Bobbitt,
Terror and Consent: The Wars for the 21st Century
(New York: Knopf, 2008).

Mark Bowden,
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
(New York: Penguin, 2000).

Jarret Brachman,
Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice
(New York: Routledge, 2008).

John R. Bradley,
Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

Elizabeth Bumiller,
Condoleezza Rice: An American Life
(New York: Random House, 2007).

Jason Burke,
Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam
(New York: I. B. Tauris and Co., Ltd, 2004).

Michael Burleigh.
Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism
(London: HarperPress, 2008).

Ian Buruma,
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
(London: Penguin Press, 2006).

Daniel Byman,
The Five Front War: The Better Way to Fight Global Jihad
(Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2008).

Christopher Caldwell,
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Can Europe be the Same with Different People in It?
(London: Allen Lane, 2009).

Rajiv Chandrasekaran,
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Life Inside Iraq’s Green Zone
(New York: Knopf, 2006).

Sarah Chayes,
The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban
(New York: Penguin, 2006).

Winston Churchill,
The Story of the Malakand Field Force
(1898).

Richard Clarke,
Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror
(New York: Free Press, 2004).

Rickard Clarke (ed).
The Annals: Terrorism: What the Next President Will Face
(Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2008).

David Cloud and Greg Jaffe,
The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army
(New York: Crown, 2009).

Andrew Cockburn,
Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007).

Stephen Cohen,
The Idea of Pakistan
(Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 2005).

Steve Coll,
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
(New York: Penguin, 2008).

Steve Coll,
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
(New York: Penguin, 2004).

Aukai Collins,
My Jihad: The True Story of An American Mujahid’s Amazing Journey from Osama Bin Laden’s Training Camps to Counterterrorism with the FBI and CIA
(Guilford, CO: Lyons Press, 2002).

David Cook,
Understanding Jihad
(Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005).

David Cook,
Martyrdom in Islam: Themes in Islamic History
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Jane Corbin,
Al-Qaeda: In Search of the Terror Network that Threatens the World
(London: Simon & Schuster, 2003).

Anthony H. Cordesman,
The Lessons of Afghanistan: War Fighting, Intelligence, and Force Transformation
(Washington, D.C.: CSIS, 2002).

Gordon Corera,
Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the AQ Khan Network
(London: Oxford University Press, 2006).

Audrey Kurth Cronin,
Ending Terrorism: Lessons for Defeating al-Qaeda
(London: IISS, 2008).

N. J. Dawood,
The Koran: Translated with Notes
(New York: Penguin Books, 1997).

Michael Delong,
A General Speaks Out: The Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
(Osceola: Zenith Press, 2007).

Karen DeYoung,
Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell
(New York: Vintage, 2007).

John Diamond.
The CIA and the Culture of Failure
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008).

Christopher Dickey,
Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force—the NYPD
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009).

James Dobbins,
After the Taliban: Nation Building in Afghanistan
(Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, Inc, 2008).

Michael Scott Doran. “Somebody Else’s Civil War.” In
How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War
. Eds. James F. Hoge Jr. and Gideon Rose (New York: Public Affairs, 2010).

Gilles Dorronsoro,
Revolution Unending: Afghanistan, 1979 to the Present
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2005).

John Esposito and Dalia Mogahed,
Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think
(New York: Gallup Press, 2007).

Gregory Feifer.
The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan
(New York: HarperCollins, 2009).

Douglas J. Feith,
War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism
(New York: HarperCollins, 2008).

Vanda Felbab-Brown,
Shooting Up: Counterinsurgency and the War on Drugs
(Wahington, D.C.: Brookings Press, 2009).

Reuven Firestone,
Jihad: The Origin of Holy War in Islam
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

Yosri Fouda and Nick Fielding,
Masterminds of Terror: The Truth Behind the Most Devastating Attack The World Has Ever Seen
(New York: Arcade Publishing, 2003).

Tommy Franks,
American Soldier
(New York: Harper Collins, 2004).

Dalton Fury,
Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander’s Account of the Hunt for the World’s Most Wanted Man
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008).

David Galula,
Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice
(Westport, CT: Praeger, 1964).

Barton Gellman, Angler:
The Cheney Vice Presidency
(New York: Penguin, 2008).

Joshua Alexander Geltzer,
U.S. Counter-Terrorism Strategy and al-Qaeda: Signalling and the Terrorist World-view
(New York: Routledge, 2010).

Fawaz A. Gerges,
The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Antonio Giustozzi,
Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2008).

Antonio Giustozzi (ed.),
Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2009).

Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor,
COBRA II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
(New York: Vintage, 2006).

Bradley Graham,
By His Own Rules: The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld
(New York: Public Affairs, 2009).

Karen Greenberg,
The Least Worst Place: Guantánamo’s First 100 Days
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Karen Greenberg (ed.),
Al-Qaeda Now: Understanding Today’s Terrorists
(New York: Cambridge, 2005).

Stephen Grey,
Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program
(New York: St. Martins, 2006).

Stephen Grey,
Operation Snake Bite: The Explosive True Story of An Afghan Desert Siege
(New York: Viking, 2009).

Roy Gutman,
How We Missed the Story: Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban and the Hijacking of Afghanistan
(Washington, D.C.: USIP, 2008).

Richard Haass,
War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009).

Mohammed Hafez,
Suicide Bombers in Iraq: The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom
(Washington, D.C.: USIP Press, 2007).

Stephen F. Hayes,
The Connection: How al-Qaeda’s Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America
(New York: HarperCollins, 2004).

Thomas Hegghammer,
Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism Since 1979
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Steve Hendricks,
A Kidnapping in Milan: The CIA on Trial
(New York: Norton, 2010).

Esa Al-Hindi,
Army of Madinah in Kashmir
(Birmingham: Maktabah al Ansar, 1999).

Bruce Hoffman,
Inside Terrorism
(New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1998).

James F. Hoge Jr. and Gideon Rose (eds.),
How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War
(New York: Public Affairs, 2001).

Mark Huband,
Warriors of the Prophet: The Struggle for Islam
(Boulder, Colorado: West-view Press, 1998).

Rex Hudson,
The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why
(Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 1999).

Ed Husain,
The Islamist: Why I Became an Islamic Fundamentalist, What I Saw Inside, and Why I Left
(New York: Penguin, 2009).

Fu’ad Husayn,
Al-Zarqawi: The Second al-Qa’ida Generation.
Serialized in
Al-Quds al-Arabi
May 21–22, 2005.

Zahid Hussein,
Frontline Pakistan: The Struggle with Militant Islam
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2007).

Raymond Ibrahim,
The al-Qaeda Reader
(New York: Broadway Books, 2007).

Michael Isikoff and David Corn,
Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War
(New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2006).

Roland Jacquard,
L’Archive Secretès d’al Qaida
(Paris: Jean Picollec, 2002).

Brian Michael Jenkins,
Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?
(Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2008).

Seth G. Jones,
In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan
(New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2009).

Kimberly Kagan,
The Surge: A Military History
(New York: Encounter Books, 2008).

Stanley Karnow,
Vietnam: A History
(New York: Penguin, 1990).

Gilles Kepel,
The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West
(Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2004).

Gilles Kepel and Jean-Pierre Milelli,
Al-Qaeda in its own Words
(Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008).

Hans G. Kippenberg and Tilman Seidensticker,
The 9/11 Handbook
(London: Equinox Publishing, 2007).

Alan Krueger,
What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007).

Mark Kukis,
My Heart Became Attached: The Strange Journey of John Walker Lindh
(Washington, D.C.: Brasseys, 2003).

Robert Lacey,
Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia
(New York: Viking Press, 2009).

Omar bin Laden, Najwa bin Laden, Jean Sasson,
Growing Up Bin Laden: Osama’s Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2009).

William Langewiesche,
The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor
(New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007).

Bruce Lawrence,
Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden
(New York: Verso, 2005).

Bernard-Henri Lévy,
Who Killed Daniel Pearl?
(Hoboken: Melville House Publishing, 2003).

Bernard Lewis,
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
(New York: The Modern Library, 2003).

Bernard Lewis,
What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
(New York: Perennial, 2002).

Brynjar Lia,
Architect of Global Jihad: The life of al-Qaeda strategist Abu Musab al-Suri
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2008).