Talking to Terrorists: A Personal Journey from the IRA to Al Qaeda

A controversial and timely book by BBC reporter and terrorism expert Peter Taylor In the course of a distinguished career spanning nearly 40 years, multi-award-winning BBC reporter and documentary-maker Peter Taylor has frequently come face-to-face with terrorists and their victims in his attempt to explain the actions of the individuals behind some of the world's most notorious terror attacks. As a green young journalist he was sent to Northern Ireland to report on 'Bloody Sunday' in 1972, and he devoted the next 30 years to investigating the Troubles, becoming one of the foremost experts on the subject. In the decade following 9/11, he switched his focus to the far more deadly threat posed by Al Qaeda, breaking news stories about intelligence-gathering in the period up to the 7/7 bombings and the plot to blow up a series of passenger planes mid-Atlantic. What are terrorists really like? What motivates them? Should governments do the unthinkable and talk to them? How do the intelligence agencies elicit information from them? When does interrogation become torture? In Talking to Terrorists, Taylor wrestles with these complex questions in a fascinating personal journey that has taken him from the Bogside in Northern Ireland to the notorious US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. In the process he sheds much-needed light on a phenomenon that has become part of the fabric of all our lives.

Politics & Social Sciences

Peter Taylor

Social Sciences

HarperCollins, Publishers

Harper Press

Birder's Guide to Southeastern Manitoba, 2nd Revised and Enlarged Edition

Norman Cleveland

Scott Edie

Gordon Grieef

George Holland

Rudolf Koes

Julia Maynard

Wayne Neily

Russell Tkachuk

Manitoba Naturalists Society

Taylor, Peter. Beating the Terrorists ? - Interrogation at Omagh, Gough and Castlereagh. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1980. 18 cm. 347 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.

Beating the terrorists?: Interrogation at Omagh, Gough, and Castlereagh (A Penguin special)

Penguin??Books

Geometry and Discrete Mathematics 12

Science & Math

Robert Alexander

Antonietta Lenjosek

Peter J. Harrison

Mathematics

Addison-Wesley

A collection of Taylor's work which includes a novella, 10 stories and three one-act plays. Set mostly in early 20th-century Tennessee, St Louis and North Carolina, they are tales of fate, exploring the themes of lost love, retribution, second chances and ghosts.

The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Sceptre

One of the most celebrated novels of its time, the Pulitzer Prize winner A Summons to Memphis introduces the Carver family, natives of Nashville, residents, with the exception of Phillip, of Memphis, Tennessee. During the twilight of a Sunday afternoon in March, New York book editor Phillip Carver receives an urgent phone call from each of his older, unmarried sisters. They plead with Phillip to help avert their widower father's impending remarriage to a younger woman. Hesitant to get embroiled in a family drama, he reluctantly agrees to go back south, only to discover the true motivation behing his sisters' concern. While there, Phillip is forced to confront his domineering siblings, a controlling patriarch, and flood of memories from this troubled past. Peter Taylor is one of the masters of Southern literature, whose work stands in the company of Eudora Walty, James Agee, and Walker Percy. In A Summons to Memphis, he composed a richly evocative story of revenge, resolution, and redemption, and gave us a classic work of American literature.

A Summons to Memphis: Pulitzer Prize Winner

United States

Vintage

This collection of four prose and four intimately told verse stories was first published in 1977, and the following year Peter Taylor was given the Gold Medal Award for the short story by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Set mostly in Nashville and Memphis amid Taylor's fictional genteel Tennessee society, these tales belie serene manners and lovely neighborhoods with undercurrents of irony, violence, disgrace, sexual transgressions, and generational divide. Often shadowing male despair in the modern world, they describe the power of unleashed passion once the restraint of custom has given way.

In the Miro District and other stories

KNOPF

Sport and recreation: An economic analysis

Chris Gratton

Business & Money

Spon Press

Orchids

Crescent

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