Targeted: Beirut : the 1983 Marine Barracks bombing and the untold origin story of the war on terror / Jack Carr and James M. Scott.

By:

Carr, Jack (Joint pseudonym) [author.]

Contributor(s):

Scott, James (James M.) [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Emily Bestler Books, Atria, 2024Edition: First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover editionDescription: xiii, 447 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781668024355
1668024357

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

956.9204/4 23/eng/20240913

LOC classification:

DS87.53 .C37 2024

Summary: Based on comprehensive interviews with survivors, extensive military records, as well as personal letters, diaries and photographs, the full story is revealed behind the deadly truck bomb that exploded at the U.S. Marine Corp barracks in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Adult Non-Fiction	New Books	956.92044 CAR	Available		36748002569483

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The first in a new "authoritative, shocking" (Brad Meltzer, #1 New York Times bestselling author) nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott, beginning with the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut.

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 and barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. This horrifying terrorist attack, which killed 241 servicemen, continues to influence US foreign policy and haunts the Marine Corps to this day.

Now, the full story is revealed as never before by Jack Carr and historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott with this "definitive, behind-the-scenes account of a mission and a fight that changed America" (Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times bestselling author). Based on comprehensive interviews with survivors, extensive military records, as well as personal letters, diaries, and photographs, this is "a masterwork of research and storytelling" (Peter Schweizer, #1 New York Times bestselling author).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-429) and index.

Based on comprehensive interviews with survivors, extensive military records, as well as personal letters, diaries and photographs, the full story is revealed behind the deadly truck bomb that exploded at the U.S. Marine Corp barracks in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Preface (xi)
Epilogue (325)
Acknowledgments (335)
In Honor of the Fallen (339)
A Note on Sources (347)
Abbreviations (349)
Notes (351)
Bibliography (421)
Index (431)

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