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1381) Schneier on security
Author
Publisher
Wiley Pub
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
1 online resource (viii, 328 pages)
Language
English
Description
This collection of essays on security: on security technology, on security policy, and on how security works in the real world was previously published between June 2002 and June 2008. They offer a computer security expert's insights into a wide range of security issues, including the risk of identity theft (vastly overrated), the long-range security threat of unchecked presidential power, why computer security is fundamentally an economic problem,...
1382) Bush at war
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
xix, 376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
WND Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bigger than Watergate! Bigger than Iran-Contra! Ten times bigger than both, said one representative. The Bengahzi scandal may have been covered up by the White House, but the truth is about to come out. The Real Benghazi Story is a ground-breaking investigative work that finally exposes some of the most significant issues related to the murderous September 11, 2012, attack—information with current national security implications.
Investigative
...Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 258 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In July 1973, a gunman stepped from behind a tree and fired five shots, point blank, into Josef Alon, a kind, unassuming Israeli Air Force pilot. Sixteen-year-old Fred Burton was deeply shocked by this crime that rocked his sleepy suburban neighborhood of Bethesda, Maryland. As it turned out, Alon wasn't just a pilot and family man--he was a high-ranking Israeli military official with intelligence ties. The assassin was never found and the case was...
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Language
Français
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Description
Dramatizes the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafés. The French win the battle, but ultimately...
1393) The forever prisoner: the full and searing account of the CIA's most controversial covert program
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 452 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Six months after 9/11, CIA and FBI agents captured Abu Zubaydah, mistakenly believed to be number three in the Al Qaeda hierarchy. Frantic to thwart a much-feared second attack, the U.S. rendered him to a black site in Thailand. There he collided with Air Force psychologist James Mitchell. Believing that Abu Zubaydah had been trained to resist interrogation, Mitchell and others were authorized to use brutal interrogation techniques that would have...
1394) The red circle: my life in the Navy Seal Sniper Corps and how I trained America's deadliest marksmen
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
380 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Brandon Webb's experiences in the world's most elite sniper corps are the stuff of legend. From his grueling years of training in Naval Special Operations, to his combat tours in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan, The Red Circle provides a rare and personal look at the inner workings of the US military through the eyes of a covert operations specialist. Yet it is Webb's distinguished second career designing new post-9/11 sniper training courses that...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xi, 306 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Setting Sun is the story of the dying days of an Empire, combined with gripping family history, in an extraordinary literary voyage across India. When a letter from an Indian historian arrives out of the blue and informs leading academic Bart Moore-Gilbert that his beloved, deceased father, a May member of the Indian Police before Independence, partook in the abuse of civilians his world is shaken as his cherished childhood memories are challenged....
1398) Broken arrow
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Language
English
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Description
The year is 1870, and former Union soldier Tom Jeffords is recruited to remove a tribe of Apache warriors from a U.S. Mail delivery route by any means necessary. Jeffords chooses peace instead of more killings and decides to learn the Apache way of life. He agrees to a peace treaty with Apache chief Cochise and marries a beautiful Native American woman. Tragedy strikes after the settlers break the peace treaty, but now it's Cochise trying to stop...
1400) Die hard collection
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Die hard: New York City detective John McClane is in Los Angeles to spend the holidays with his estranged wife Holly. While McClane waits for Holly's office party to end, terrorists take control of the building. As their sinister leader, Hans Gruber, and his savage henchman round up hostages, McClane gets ready to blast a few rounds of his own and launch a one-man war.
Die hard 2: John McClane is off-duty on Christmas Eve in the nation's capital...
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