Select Reading List on
Terrorism
Nonfiction (for new books added to
the list check New and Noteworthy and forthcoming works that should hit bookstores by the end of the summer.)
James A.
Aho. The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism. 1990.
. This Thing of Darkness: A Sociology of the Enemy. 1994.
Tariq
Ali. The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity. 2002.
Anonymous. Through Our Enemies' Eyes. 2003.
Paul Aussaresses. The
Battle for the Casbah: Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Algeria. 2002
Paul Avrich. The
Haymarket Tragedy. 1984.
. Sacco and Vanzetti:
The Anarchist Background. 1991.
. The Russian
Anarchists. 1967.
. The Modern School
Movement. 1980.
Benjamin R.
Barber. Jihad vs. MacWorld: Terrorism’s Challenge to Democracy. 2001.
Michael Barkun. Religion
and the Racist Right: The Origins of Christianity. 1994.
Tom Barry. Guerilla
Days in Ireland: A Personal Account of the Anglo-Irish War. 1991.
Peter L. Bergen. Holy
War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden. 2001.
Paul
Berman. Terror and Liberalism. 2003.
James H.
Billington. Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith. 1980.
Yossef Bodansky. Target America: Terrorism in the U.S.
Today. 1993.
Mark Bowden. Killing
Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw. 2001.
Andrew Boyd. Holy
War in Belfast: A History of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. 1969.
Jean-Charles Brisard
and Guillaume Dasquie. Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy adn the
failed Hunt for Bin Laden. 2002.
Vera Broido. Apostles
Into Terrorists. 1977.
Richard Butler. The
Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction. 2000.
Caleb Carr. The
Lessons of Terror. 2002.
Noam Chomsky. 9-11.
2001.
Tom Clancy. Shadow
Warriors: Inside the Special Forces. 2002.
James W. Clarke. American
Assassins: The Darker Side of Politics. 1982.
Richard Clarke.
Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terrorism. 2004.
James
Coates. Armed and Dangerous: The Rise of the Survivalist Right. 1987.
Steve Coll. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the
CIA, Afghanistan, Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.
2004.
Au Kai Collins. My
Jihad. 2002.
Gerry Conlon. In
The Name of The Father. 1993.
Tim Pat Coogan. The
IRA: A History. 1993.
. Michael Collins: The
Man Who Made Ireland. 1992.
. On The Blanket: The
Inside Story of the IRA Prisoners' "Dirty" Protest. 1997.
. The Troubles:
Ireland's Ordeal 1966-1996 and the Search for Peace. 1996.
Vincent Coppola. Dragon
of God: Journey Through Far-Right America. 1996.
Isaac Cronin. Confronting
Fear: A History of Terrorism. 2002.
Morris
Dees. Gathering Storm: America's Militia Threat. 1996.
Nelson DeMille. Night Fall. 2004.
Peter De Rosa. Rebels:
The Irish Rising of 1916. 1990.
Christopher Dobson. The
Carlos Complex: A Study in Terror. 1977.
Christopher
Dobson and Ronald Payne. The Neverending War: Terrorism in the 1980s. 1987..
Steve Emerson. American
Jihad: The Terrorist Living Among Us. 2002.
Richard
English. Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA. 2003.
John L. Esposito. Unholy
War: Terror in the Name of Islam. 2002.
Raphel
S. Ezekiel. The Racist Mind: Portraits of American Neo-Nazis and Klansmen. 1995.
John
Follain. Jackal: The Complete Story of the Legendary Terrorist Carlos the Jackal.
1998.
Franklin L. Ford. Political
Murder: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism. 1985.
Richard A. Falkenrath. America’s
Achilles’ Heel 1998.
Thomas Gallagher. Paddy's
Lament, Ireland 1846-1847. 1982.
Carlotta Gall and
Thomas de Waal. Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus. 1998.
Tony Geraghty. The
Irish War. 1998.
Anna Geifman. Thou
Shalt Kill: Revolutionary Terrorism in Russia,1894-1917. 1993.
Abbott Gleason. Young
Russia: The Genesis of Russian Radicalism in
the 1860s. 1980.
Lester W. Grau. Supporting
`Carlos The Jackal'. 1992.
Melissa Fay Greene. The
Temple Bombing., 1996.
Rohan Gunaratna. Inside
al-Qaeda: Global Network of Terror. 2002.
Mark S. Hamm. Apocalypse
in Oklahoma: Waco and Ruby Ridge Revenged. 1997.
Peter Harclederode. Fighting
Dirty. 2001.
Harry Henderson. Global
Terrorism: The Complete Reference Guide. 2001.
James F. Hodge, Jr. ed.
How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War. 2001.
Bruce Hoffman. Inside
Terrorism. 1998.
Alistair Horne. A
Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962. 1977.
Hala Jaber. Hezbollah:
Born with a Vengeance. 1997
Roland Jacquard. In
the Name of Osama bin Laden. 2002.
Stephen Jones. Others
Unknown: The Oklahoma City Bombing Case and onspiracy. 1998.
Samuel M. Katz. Relentless
Pursuit. 2002.
Kevin Kenny. Making
Sense of the Molly Maguires. 1998.
Anthony
Lake. 6 Nightmares: Real Threats in a Dangerous World and How American Can Meet Them.
2000.
Peter
Lance. 100 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI. 2003.
Elinor
Langer. A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, The Trial of a
White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America. 2003.
Walter Laqueur. The
Age of Terrorism. 1987.
. The New Terrorism:
Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction. 1999.
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. No End to War: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century. 2003.
Daniel
Levitas. The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right.
2002.
Edward
T. Linethal. The Unfished Bombing: Oklahoma City Bombing in American Memory. 2001.
London
Sunday Times. Northern Ireland: A Report on the Conflict. 1972.
David E. Long. The
Anatomy of Terrorism. 1990.
Eilleen MacDonald. Shoot
The Women First. 1991.
Patricia
Marchak. God's Assassins: State Terrorism in Argentina in the 1970s. 1999.
Kati Marton. A Death
in Jerusalem. 1994.
John Miller, Michael
Stone, and Chris Mitchell, The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot and Why the FBI and CIA
Failed to Stop it. 2002.
Judith Miller. God
Has Ninety-Nine Names. 1997.
___. Germs:
Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War. 2001.
Robin
Moore. The Hunt for Bin Ladin: Task Force Dagger. 2003.
Robin Morgan. The
Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism. 2001.
Elizabeth A. Muenger. The British Military Dilemma In
Ireland. 1991
Laurie Mylroie. War
Against America: A Study of Revenge. 2001.
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Bush vs. The Beltway: How the CIA and the State Department Tried to Stop the
War on Terror. 2003.
Norman M. Naimark. Terrorists
and Social Democrats. 1983.
Adam Nossiter. Of
Long Memory: Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar
Evers. 1994.
Ulick O'Connor. Michael
Collins The Troubles. 1996.
Thomas Pakenham. The
Year of Liberty. 1969.
Duncan M. Perry. The
Politics of Terror: The Macedonian Revolutionary
Movements. 1988.
Ralph Peters. Beyond
Terror. 2002.
Paul R. Pillar. Terrorism
and U.S. Foreign Policy. 2001.
Daniel
Pipes. Conspiracy: How the Parnoid Style Flourishes and Where it Comes From. 1997.
Gerald
Posner. Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11. 2003.
Samatha
Powers. "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide. 2002.
Richard
Preston. Demon in the Freezer: A True Story. 2002
Ahmed Rashid. Taliban:
Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. 2000.
Simon Reeves. The
New Jackals. 1999.
. One Day in September: The Full Story of
the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre. 2000.
Jon Ronsom. Them:
Adventures with Extremists. 2002.
Patrick Sale. Abu
Nidal: A Gun For Hire. 1992.
Boris Savinkov. Memoirs
of a Terrorist. 1972.
Jeffrey D. Simon. The
Terrorist Trap. 2001.
Stephen Singular. Talked
to Death: The Life and Murder of Alan Berg. 1987.
Richard B.
Spence. Boris Savinkov: Renegade On The Left. 1991.
Jessica Stern. The
Ultimate Terrorist. 1999.
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Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill. 2003.
Kenneth
S. Stern. A Force Upon the Plains. 1996.
Glenn E.
Schwitzer. A Faceless Enemy: The Origins of Modern Terrorism. 2002.
Marilyn
W. Thompson. The Killer Strain: Anthrax and a Government Exposed. 2003.
Jonathan B. Tucker. Scourage:
The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox. 2001.
Adam Ulam. In The
Name of the People. 1977.
Gore
Vidal. Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got To Be So Hated. 2002
Maryanne Vollers. Ghosts
of Mississippi. 1995.
Murray
Weiss. The Man Who Warned America: The Life and Death of John O'Neill, The
FBI's Embattled Counterterror Warrior. 2003.
Bob
Woodward. Bush at War. 2002.
Cecil Woodham-Smith. The
Great Hunger. 1962.
David Yallop. Tracking
The Jackal. 1993.
Fiction
Larry Bond. The
Enemy Within. 1996.
Tom Clancy. The Red
Rabbit, 2002.
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Patriot Games. 1987.
. Sum of All Fears.
1991.
. Rainbow Six. 1998.
Larry Collins and
Dominique LaPierre. The Fifth Horseman. 1980.
Larry
Collins. The Road to Armageddon. 2003.
Joseph Conrad. The
Secret Agent. 1983 [1905]
Robin Cook. Vector.
1999.
Stephen Coonts. Under
Siege. 1993.
___. America.
2001.
Tahar Djaout. The
Last Summer of Reason. 2001.
Fyodor Mikhail
Dostoyevsky. The Devils. 1953.
Frederick Forsyth. The
Fourth Protocol. 1984.
Jack Higgins. Edge
of Danger. 2001.
Janette
Turner Hospital. Due Preparations for the Plague. 2003.
Jack London. The
Assassination Bureau, Ltd. 1963.
Robert Ludlum. The
Icarus Agenda. 1988.
Francine Mathews. Cut
Out. 2001.
Victor O'Reilly. Games
of the Hangman. 1991.
Richard Preston.
The Cobra Event. 1997.
Christopher
Reich. The Devil's Banker. 2003.
Kathy Reichs. Fatal
Voyage. 2001.
___. Grave Secrets.
2002.
Stella
Reminington. At Risk. 2005.
Gerald Seymour. Harry's
Game. 1975.
. Field of Blood.
1985.
. The Heart of Danger.
1995.
. Kingfisher. 1977.
___. The
Unknown Soldier. 2005.
Daniel Silva. The
Marching Season. 1999.
. The Kill Artist. 2000.
. The English Assassin. 2002.
John Weisman. SOAR: A Black Ops Novel. 2003.
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