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Sebuah Masjid Di Munich: Konspirasi Nazi, CIA, Dan Ikhwanul Muslimin (2010)

by Ian Johnson(Favorite Author)

3.47 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Literati

review 1: The subject matter is intensely fascinating, but the details bog the narrative down about half way through. In the beginning, when Johnson is describing how the Nazis co-opted Muslim ethnic groups from the caucuses to fight for them, I was riveted by this fascinating and unknown piece of history. About halfway through, as Johnson then describes how these ex-Nazis-- all ethnic Muslims-- became targeted by the CIA for their opposition to Communist Russia, I was still fairly riveted... but by the time Johnson begins describing how these groups became the pawns of various Islamist movements looking to build a mosque in Germany, I began get to lost in the cast of characters. The second half of the book is not as strong, and Johnson cannot keep up the fast pace when bogged down ... morein the minutiae of the mosque-building transactions. The ending, when he telescopes back out to the big picture, is somewhat better. Nonetheless, a recommended read for the history.
review 2: The title is better than the book. Ian Johnson clearly knows what he's doing from a journalistic point of view. He knows how to write, and knows how to make things compelling. But as happens on occasion when trying to write a gripping story about historical events, you're wedded to the facts. And here, the facts desert him. The story isn't that interesting, and the mosque isn't that important. It's an historical footnote. The extremely detailed, where we are given word for word conversations about things that sound very important at the time, but ultimately are not. At the end it felt like he just put all his notes into the form of a book and stopped. less

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