Book description
DAILY TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST AND INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Throughout the 1990s a vast conflict was brewing. The storm broke on
September 11th 2001. Since then much of the world has seen invasions,
bombings, battles and riots. Hundreds of thousands of people have
died. Jason Burke, a first-hand witness of many of the conflict's key
moments, has written the definitive account of its course in his
acclaimed book The 9/11 Wars.
At once investigation, reportage and contemporary history, The
9/11 Wars is an essential book for understanding the dangerous
and unstable twenty-first century. Whether reporting on the riots in
France or the attack on Mumbai, suicide bombers in Iraq or British
troops fighting in Helmand, Jason Burke tells the story of a world
that changed forever when the hijacked planes flew out of the
brilliant blue sky above Manhattan on September 11th.
Reviews:
'The best overview of the 9/11 decade so far in print'
Economist
'A magisterial history of the last decade ... The long patient
sentences of The 9/11 Wars are suffused with the melancholy of
a man who has learned a great deal from long exposure to atrocity and
folly' Pankaj Mishra, Guardian
'The 9/11 Wars warrants great respect'
Metro
'Pacy, well-researched, and packed with telling anecdotes, this
book's strength is in its detailed, balanced overview ... At a time
when there are more books out on terrorism than ever before ... this
is likely to be among the best'
Sunday Telegraph
'[Burke] is one of the most respected and experienced foreign
correspondents in the business ... A major authority on the politics
and organisation of Islamic extremism and ... a talented writer with
the rare gift of joining effortless prose to challenging scholarship
... [The 9/11 Wars] is a magnificent achievement'
Irish Times
'A reader wanting a more dispassionate survey of how 9/11, and the
response to it, may have shaped parts of the world will do no better
than invest in [this] brilliant book' David Aaronovitch, The Times
'This remarkably balanced, well-sourced and very well-written book
... will be turned to in the future ... [Burke] has demonstrated
impressive expertise as a historian who has had the advantage of
having been present on many of the battlefields he describes' Andrew
Roberts,
Evening Standard
'[A] lucid, sane account ... taut, careful reporting ... Remarkable'
Scotsman
'Potent ... journalism of a high order. Like all good reporters,
Burke is something of a scholar, drawing meticulously on interview
notes years old, and on extensive background reading. He excels, too,
in describing the experiences of ordinary Muslims; such insights make
this book essential for understanding the past decade'
Sunday Times
About the author:
Jason Burke is the South Asia correspondent for the Guardian. He has
reported around the world for both the Guardian and the Observer. He
is the author of two other widely praised books, both published by
Penguin: Al-Qaeda and On the Road to Kandahar. He lives
in New Delhi.
Jason Burke is the South Asia correspondent for the Guardian. He has
reported around the world for both the Guardian and the Observer. He is
the author of two other widely praised books, both published by Penguin:
Al-Qaeda and On the Road to Kandahar. He lives in New Delhi.
