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Inferno in Chechnya
Brian Glyn Williams
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Description for Inferno in Chechnya
Hardback. In 2013, the United States suffered its worst terrorist bombing since 9/11 at the annual running of the Boston Marathon. When the culprits turned out to be U.S. residents of Chechen descent, Americans were shocked and confused. Why would members of an obscure Russian minority group consider America their enemy? Inferno in Chechnya is the first book Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUAC; 1KBB; HRAM9; JFFE; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
In 2013, the United States suffered its worst terrorist bombing since 9/11 at the annual running of the Boston Marathon. When the culprits turned out to be U.S. residents of Chechen descent, Americans were shocked and confused. Why would members of an obscure Russian minority group consider America their enemy? Inferno in Chechnya is the first book to answer this riddle by tracing the roots of the Boston attack to the Caucasus Mountains of southern Russia. Brian Glyn Williams describes the tragic history of the bombers' war-devastated homeland - including tsarist conquest and two bloody wars with post-Soviet Russia that ... Read more
In 2013, the United States suffered its worst terrorist bombing since 9/11 at the annual running of the Boston Marathon. When the culprits turned out to be U.S. residents of Chechen descent, Americans were shocked and confused. Why would members of an obscure Russian minority group consider America their enemy? Inferno in Chechnya is the first book to answer this riddle by tracing the roots of the Boston attack to the Caucasus Mountains of southern Russia. Brian Glyn Williams describes the tragic history of the bombers' war-devastated homeland - including tsarist conquest and two bloody wars with post-Soviet Russia that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Hanover, United States
ISBN
9781611687378
SKU
V9781611687378
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About Brian Glyn Williams
BRIAN GLYN WILLIAMS earned his first master's at the Central Eurasian studies program at Indiana University and a second master's in Russian history and a PhD in Central Asian history from the University of Wisconsin. Among his published works is Afghanistan Declassified: A Guide to America's Longest War (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011). A tenured professor of Islamic history at ... Read more
Reviews for Inferno in Chechnya
A thorough and fascinating examination of the background to the Boston marathon bombing and the Chechen rebels who want to strike at the West as well as at Putin's Russia. Putin is getting a particularly bad press at the moment, having been branded as corrupt by the US in the last few days, and seemingly has a lot to answer ... Read more