Random Hause Trade Paperbacks 2006; XIII + 353 str., cz-b fotografie

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"Provocative ... Pape wants to change the way you think aboutsuicide bombings and explain why they are on the rise."
HENRY SCHUSTER, CNN.com

One of the world's foremost authorities on the subject of suicide terrorism, the esteemed political scientist Robert A. Pape, has created the first comprehensive database of every suicide terrorist attack in the world from 1980 until today. In Dying to Win, Pape provides a groundbreaking demographic profile of modern śuicide terrorist attackers—and his findings offer a power- ful counterpoint to what we now accept as conventional wisdom on the topic. He also examines the early practitioners óf this guerrilla tactic, including the ancient Jewish Zealots, who in A.D. 66 wished to liberate themśelves from Roman occupation; the Ismaiti Assassins, a Shi'ite Muslim sect in northern Iran in the eleventh and twelfth centuries; World War II's Japanese kamikaze pilots, three thousand of whom crashed into U.S. naval vessels; and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, a secular, Marxist-Leninist org~nization responsible for more suicide terrorist attacks than any other group in history.

Dying to Win is a startling work of analysis grounded in fact, not politics, that recommends concrete ways for states to fight and prevent terrorist attacks now. Transcending speculation with system- atic scholarship, this is one of the most important studies of the terrorist threat to the United States and its allies since 9/11."Enlightening .. . sheds interesting light on a phenomenon often~istakenly believed to be restricted to the Middle East."
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