9/11: Chapter or just a footnote?

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The Big Story:

A quarter century on, was September 11 really the day that changed the world forever?

• Roughly half the world’s population today is too young to remember the 9/11 attacks on the United States, when 19 hijackers turned commercial planes into deadly weapons.
• The other half struggles between memory and forgetting because of America’s over-reaction at home and abroad.

The post-9/11 ‘war on terror’ wreaked havoc. On Afghanistan and Iraq, of course, but other countries too, as well as the hundreds of thousands of people killed or unfairly caught up in a massive surveillance dragnet and relatively recently normalised methods of torture.

Our first book asks about the longer historical perspective:

“Will 9/11 be a chapter or a footnote?”

This Week’s Books:

• A dismal summing up of 9/11’s effects.
• A novel about how the attack on America affected an Iraqi village.

Click here to read on about the books and the back story

Originally published on Medium