Enemy Combatant

The "shocking firsthand account" (Chicago Sun-Times) of one man's years inside the notorious American prison—and his Kafkaesque struggle to clear his name. WhenEnemy Combatantwas first published in the United States in hardcover in 2006 it garnered sensational reviews, and its author was featured in theNew York Times, the Los Angeles Times, on National Public Radio, and on ABC News. A second generation British Muslim, Begg had been held by the U.S. military for more than three years...
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The "shocking firsthand account" (Chicago Sun-Times) of one man's years inside the notorious American prison—and his Kafkaesque struggle to clear his name. WhenEnemy Combatantwas first published in the United States in hardcover in 2006 it garnered sensational reviews, and its author was featured in theNew York Times, the Los Angeles Times, on National Public Radio, and on ABC News. A second generation British Muslim, Begg had been held by the U.S. military for more than three years before being released without charge in January of 2005. His memoir is the first published account by a Guantánamo detainee of life inside the infamous prison. Writing in theWashington Post Book World, Jane Mayer describedEnemy Combatantas "fascinating...Begg provides some ideological counterweight to the one-sided spin coming from the U.S. government. He writes passionately and personally, stripping readers of the comforting lie that somehow the detainees aren't really like us, with emotional attachments, intellectual interests and fully developed humanity." Recommended by theFinancial TimesandTikkunmagazine and aColorLinesEditors' Pick of Post-9/11 Books,Enemy Combatantis "a forcefully told, up-to-the-minute political story...necessary reading for people on all sides of the issue" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).