
Beachhead Normandy
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This revised paperback edition provides a more extensive study of Osama bin Laden and the sources of his thought. Scheuer has added a good deal of bin Laden's words, focusing on those issues that have been most misunderstood or ignored and therefore are most in need of exposition. These include bin Laden's personality; his early years as a nonviolent Saudi dissident and reformer; the causes motivating al Qaeda and its allies, especially their perception that U.S. foreign policy threatens Islam's survival; bin Laden's long history of interest in and support for the Palestinian cause against Israel; his evolutionary growth as an Islamic hero and leader between 1996 and 2001; and the profound impact the Afghan-Soviet War had and continues to have on bin Laden, al Qaeda, and worldwide Sunni Islamic militancy. Only by understanding these words can the West appreciate the threat it faces and formulate a strategy to defeat it.
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Tom Carter grew up in a navy family with a father who had landed at Normandy. After high school, he enlisted in the navy and served three years aboard the USS Semmes (DDG 18), making deployments to the Persian Gulf in 1976 and with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean in 1977. After his service, Carter worked for a series of newspapers as a reporter and editor. He later earned a PhD in communications from the University of Tennessee and now teaches journalism and medieval British literature at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Pearl Harbor to Boot Camp
- 2 LCTs Enter the War
- 3 Solomons Island
- 4 Long, Slow Trip to War
- 5 The Near Shore
- 6 Omaha Beach
- 7 Frenzy and Storm
- 8 Calm and Oblivion
- 9 Return to Near Shore
- 10 Slogging Across the Pacific
- 11 The Far East
- 12 Odysseus in Tennessee
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- Footnotes
- Preface_FN
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