Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy

6 best books like Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy (Fawaz A. Gerges): A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda, Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia, Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House

Author	Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
ISBN	1579124496

Written by one of our foremost historians and published in 1965, A Thousand Days is still considered the most complete and definitive portrait of John F. Kennedy and his administration. Handpicked by Kennedy to serve as special assistant to the president, historian and Harvard professor Arthur M....

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

Author	Tucker Max
ISBN	0806527285

The Book That Inspired The Movie My name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole. I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally...

Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda

Author	Omar Nasiri
ISBN	0465023886

Between 1994 and 2000, Omar Nasiri worked as a secret agent for Europe’s top foreign intelligence services - including France’s DGSE ( Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure ), and Britain’s MI5 and MI6. From the netherworld of Islamist cells in Belgium, to the training camps of...

Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia

Author	Ahmed Rashid
ISBN	0142002607

Ahmed Rashid, whose masterful account of Afghanistan's Taliban regime became required reading after September 11, turns his legendary skills as an investigative journalist to five adjacent Central Asian Republics-Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan--where...

Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill

Author	Jessica Stern
ISBN	0060505338

For four years, Jessica Stern interviewed extremist members of three religions around the world: Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Traveling extensively—to refugee camps in Lebanon, to religious schools in Pakistan, to prisons in Amman, Asqelon, and Pensacola—she discovered that the Islamic...

How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq

Author	Matthew Alexander
ISBN	1416573151

Finding Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, had long been the U.S. military's top priority -- trumping even the search for Osama bin Laden. No brutality was spared in trying to squeeze intelligence from Zarqawi's suspected associates. But these "force on force" techniques yielded...