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Sign up todayBin Laden
The Man Who Declared War on America
Narrator
Wanda McCaddon
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Length
21 hours 34 minutes
Language
English
Who is Osama bin Laden—the only terrorist leader ever to have declared a holy war? What drives him and his followers to hate the Western civilization that has armed them? Bin Laden’s name has been linked to a number of incidents that have cost Americans their lives, most conspicuously, the catastrophic assaults on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
In this comprehensive account of the rise of bin Laden, world-renowned terrorism expert Yossef Bodansky uncovers the events in bin Laden’s life that turned a once-promising engineering student into a cold-blooded leader of radical Islam. It is a chilling story that is as current as today’s headlines and as ancient as the Crusades, a story that transcends bin Laden and any other single man.
Yossef Bodansky is the director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare. He is a former senior consultant for the US Departments of Defense and State. The author of nine books, including the number-one New York Times bestseller, Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America, he divides his time between the Middle East and the Washington, DC, area.
Wanda McCaddon began recording books for the fledgling audiobook industry in the early 1980s and has since narrated well over six hundred titles for major audio publishers, as well as abridging, narrating, and coproducing classic titles for her own company, Big Ben. Audiobook listeners may be familiar with her voice under one of her two "nom de mikes," Donada Peters and Nadia May. The recipient of an Audie Award and more than twenty-five Earphones Awards, AudioFile magazine has named her one of recording's Golden Voices. Wanda also appears regularly on the professional stage in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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“Americans need to know about Osama bin Laden, and the best place to find out is in this trenchant study of the man. A brilliant work.”
“This fascinating account of Osama bin Laden’s war against America illustrates the murky world of Islamic extremism and state-sponsored terrorism.”
“May, the consummate professional, provides a flawless reading.”
“If ever there was a timely, necessary book, this is it…Narrator Nadia May keeps the story moving through its forest of ideas using a straight reportorial tone along with effective pauses for meaning…her pacing and timing are excellent…May is especially good pronouncing the difficult Arabic and Islamic names, making it easier for us to follow the cast of characters.”
“Extremely well informed and thoroughly detailed…Fascinating—and chilling.”
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