Targeted Beirut the 1983 Marine Barracks bombing and the untold origin story of the war on terror
(2024)
Nonfiction
Large Type
Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/956.92044/CARR,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
[Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2024
©2024
©2024
EDITION
Large print edition
DESCRIPTION
815 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781420518788, 142051878X :, 142051878X, 9781420518788
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"1983: the United States Marine Corps experiences its greatest single-day loss of life since the Battle of Iwo Jima when a truck packed with explosives crashes into their headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon. This terrorist attack, which killed 241 servicemen, continues to influence US foreign policy to this day, Now, the full story is revealed as never before. Based on comprehensive interviews with survivors, extensive military records, as well as personal letters, diaries and photographs, this is the authoritative account of the deadly attack"--