Chris Wallace
1) Countdown 1945: the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
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"Propulsive." --Time * "Reads like a tense thriller." --The Washington Post * "The most exciting book I've read all year." --Admiral William H. McRaven From Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday, comes an electrifying behind-the-scenes account of the 116 days leading up to the American attack on Hiroshima.April 12, 1945: After years of bloody conflict in Europe and the Pacific, America is stunned by news of President...
2) Countdown Bin Laden: the untold story of the 247-day hunt to bring the mastermind of 9/11 to justice
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2021.
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Chronicles the final months of the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
On August 27, 2010, three CIA officers ask for a private meeting with CIA Director Leon Panetta. During that secret session, they tell Panetta that agents have tracked a courier with deep Al Qaeda ties to a three-story house at the end of a dead-end street in Abbottabad, Pakistan. But they say it’s more than a house—it’s a heavily protected fortress. No one in the meeting says the...
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[2004]
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The television journalist provides a close-up look at presidential leadership and courage in action as he chronicles nearly twenty notable episodes in American history--George Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion, Harry Truman and the Berlin Airlift, and more--discussing why each man took the difficult path.
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