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The 9/11 Wars (2000)

by Jason Burke(Favorite Author)

4.14 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1846142741 (ISBN13: 9781846142741)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Allen Lane

review 1: Fascinating overview of a set of incredibly complex and diffuse conflicts that originate or escalate from the 9/11 attacks. The range of interviewees is excellent, people at every level give their perspectives on the fighting. Burke's qualified optimism at the close of this book looks a little dated with the chaos in Iraq/Syria and the rise of IS, but anyone interested in the roots of the various regional and global crises currently so prominent in the news should give this a read.
review 2: Given the sprawling subject matter that Burke attempts to cover herein, the book is necessarily more an overview than a truly in-depth account of any particular aspect of the various fronts (Afghanistan, Iraq, Bali, Chechnya, Palestine, Mumbai, the slums of western Europe)... more at which radical Islam and the rest of the world have clashed since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Nonetheless, it's a consistently engaging, often insightful volume that manages to pack a lot of history into a manageable narrative. That narrative continues to unfold still, with events breaking daily, so it will be interesting to check back in another decade and see how Burke's cautiously optimistic take circa mid 2011 looks in hindsight. less

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