Ten years after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, author and counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen offers his perspective on the conflict that has become the longest war in U.S. history. The Longest War examines early strategic blunders by the U.S. and the ongoing failure of al-Qaeda to sway the hearts of the Muslim world. The New York Times praised the "essential book" as a "wide-angled, single-volume briefing on the war on terror so far."

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