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Gr. 6-8. Although their drab formats and dry prose guarantee that these books in the American War Library series will never be popular reading, they do gather information from a wide array of print and electronic sources--all of which are cited at the end, and most given annotations--to present wide-angled views of what has become the chief focus of U.S. foreign policy. Streissguth offers an overview of our international response to 9/11 in five theaters: Afghanistan, Iraq, the Philippines, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. Miller presents a fuller account of Afghanistan, from the battles of the cold war to bombings in early 2003, political reforms, and efforts to remove the mines that carpet parts of the country. Most of the occasional, small, black-and-white photos portray major political figures or military vehicles. These utilitarian overviews add more facts to information in such rushed-into-print efforts as Mitchell Young's War on Terrorism (2003). John Peters
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