| Title | Author | Publisher/cost | Review intro | Read more |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan Revealed | Tim Butcher | £6.99 / $9.99 | Afghanistan Revealed offers fresh perspectives on an ancient territory obscured by tales of tragic conflict. The compendium not only sheds new light, but offers fresh hope. It is essential reading … |  |
| The Storyteller’s Daughter | Saira Shah | (Knopf . $24.00) | If there is one more book that should be read on Afghanistan, Islamic fundamentalism or the war on terrorism, it is the The Storyteller’s Daughter by Saira Shah.Shah is better known as a television-documentary maker than a writer. Her face flashed around the globe after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the … |  |
| Terror In The Name Of God: Why Religious Militants Kill | Jessica Stern | (Harper Collins. $27.95) | What do an American Christian anti-abortionist, an Israeli zealot wanting to rebuild the great Jewish temple in Jerusalem and a Pakistani jihadi, or holy warrior, fighting in Kashmir have in common? They all interpret their religion in an extreme manner… | |
| The Rise of bin Laden | Steve Coll | (Penguin. $29.95) | As millions of people around the world gathered in front of their TV Sets in March and April to observe the public hearings held by the independent commission investigating the September 11 attacks, the one name that seemed to hover over the room was Osama bin Laden… | |
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