Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the West

by Gilles Kepel

Book Overview

The virulent new brand of Islamic extremism threatening the West

In November 2015, ISIS terrorists massacred scores of people in Paris with coordinated attacks on the Bataclan concert hall, caf?s and restaurants, and the national sports stadium. On Bastille Day in 2016, an ISIS sympathizer drove a truck into crowds of vacationers at the beaches of Nice, and two weeks later an elderly French priest was murdered during morning Mass...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691174849
• ISBN13: 9780691174846
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"