{"product_id":"the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden-9781784784393","title":"The Killing of Osama Bin Laden","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating attacks of 9\/11. The news did much to boost President Obama's first term and played a major part in his re-election victory of the following year. But much of the story of that night, as presented to the world, was incomplete or a lie.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis investigation, which began as a series of essays in the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books,\u003c\/i\u003e has ignited a firestorm of controversy in the world media and still leaves many difficult questions unanswered concerning Barack Obama's presidency as well as the success of the international diplomacy conducted by presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt long last, we can all decide for ourselves what we think of Hersh's story * The Week *\u003cbr\u003eOne of America's greatest investigative reporters. * New York Times Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eIt is the demands of state secrecy, their distressing effects on U.S.  foreign policy - and ultimately their subversion of the democratic  process - that unify the four essays in Seymour Hersh's\u003ci\u003e The Killing of Osama Bin Laden\u003c\/i\u003e.an explosive account. * L A Times *\u003cbr\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize winner builds on his reputation as an iconic  investigative journalist, skewering the conventional wisdom about the  death of Osama bin Laden. * Kirkus *\u003cbr\u003eQuite simply, the greatest investigative journalist of his era -- David Remnick * Editor-in-Chief, New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003eHersh's account is more plausible than the official version and more thought-provoking than the movie \u003ci\u003eZero Dark Thirty\u003c\/i\u003e, which dramatised the hunt for Bin Laden... my bet is that he's got closer to the truth about Bin Laden's death than anyone else has yet. * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eI've long admired the skill and independence with which Hersh has brought important and concealed information to light -- Ahmed Rashid * New York Review of Books *","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53190535020887,"sku":"9781784784393","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden-9781784784393","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}