Jonathan Randal: 2 books
Osama
The Making of a Terrorist
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
How is it possible for one middle-aged Saudi millionaire to threaten the world's only superpower? This is the question at the center of Jonathan Randal's riveting, timely account of Osama bin Laden's life and role in the rise of terrorism in the Middle East. Randal traces the current sources of Osama's...
Tragedy of Lebanon
Christian Warlords, Israeli Adventurers, and American Bunglers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The Tragedy of Lebanon is a reissue of Jonathan Randal's acclaimed 1983 study of the rightwing Christian militias in Lebanon that in 1975 plunged the country into a decades-long cycle of war and civil conflict. For this 2012 reissue of the book, Randal added a piercing new Preface reflecting on the...