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Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror

by Jack Carr

A documented account of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing

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Awards & Recognition

  • Editorial selection

    Marine Corps Commandant's Professional Reading List Selection

    Selected for the Marine Corps Commandant's Professional Reading List.

  • Critical praise

    Praise from Doug Stanton

    Stanton describes the book as a definitive, behind-the-scenes account of a mission and fight that changed America.

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A documented account of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing

Jack Carr and historian James M. Scott examine the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, an attack that killed 241 servicemen. The account draws on interviews with survivors, military records, personal letters, diaries, and photographs, bringing together firsthand testimony and archival material. The book places the bombing within the longer history of its effects, including its continuing significance for the Marine Corps and its influence on U.S. foreign policy. It opens a nonfiction series about terrorist attacks that changed the course of history.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in U.S. military history and the Marine Corps
  • Readers studying the 1983 Beirut bombing and its historical context
  • Readers who value accounts built from interviews and archival sources

Themes

The 1983 Beirut barracks bombingMilitary historySurvivor testimony and archival recordsThe attack’s continuing impact on the Marine Corps and U.S. foreign policy

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Book overview

A Marine Corps Commandant's Professional Reading List Selection The first in a new "authoritative, shocking" (Brad Meltzer, #1 New York Times bestselling author) nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott, beginning with the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut.1983: the United States Marine Corps experiences its greatest single-day loss of life since the Battle of Iwo Jima when a truck packed with explosives crashes into their headquarters and barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. This horrifying terrorist attack, which killed 241 servicemen, continues to influence US foreign policy and haunts the Marine Corps to this day. Now, the full story is revealed as never before by Jack Carr and historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott with this "definitive, behind-the-scenes account of a mission and a fight that changed America" (Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times bestselling author). Based on comprehensive interviews with survivors, extensive military records, as well as personal letters, diaries, and photographs, this is "a masterwork of research and storytelling" (Peter Schweizer, #1 New York Times bestselling author).
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