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The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine Yaroslav Trofimov 1st edition
The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine
Yaroslav Trofimov
20 November, 1979: as morning prayers began, hundreds of hardline Islamist gunmen, armed with rifles smuggled in coffins, stormed the Grand Mosque in Mecca. This work takes us through one of the momentous events in history, interviewing many participants in the siege and reveals the truth about the first operation of modern global jihad.
320 pages, maps
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 7, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780141034065 |
| Publishers | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Genre | Book club books |
| Pages | 320 |
| Dimensions | 130 × 197 × 20 mm · 242 g |
| Language | Danish |
| Original language | Danish |
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