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Join CLS, The Citadel, and Buxton Books for a rare opportunity to welcome renowned co-authors Jack Carr and James Scott, for a special pub-day release of the first book in a new nonfiction series examining Beirut and the devastating terrorist assault that changed the course of world history. Targeted: Beirut authoritatively reveals, for the first time, the full devastating account as researched through the compilation of extensive military records, comprehensive interviews with survivors and access to personal letters, diaries, and photographs. This 1983 barracks attack in Lebanon that killed 241 servicemen was the greatest single-day loss for the US Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima and continues to have great influence US foreign policy.

About the Book

The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott, beginning with the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut.

“The authors of targeted have painstakingly captured, through 1st person accounts, at the strategic, operational and tactical levels, the pitfalls of overreaching priorities for international military intervention.”

– James J. Ware, CAPT, USN, DC, Retired, Dental Officer for the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit, Beirut, Lebanon, 1983