{"product_id":"curse-of-the-achille-lauro-reem-al-nimer-9781614570783","title":"Curse of the Achille Lauro: A Tribute to Lost Souls","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbu al-Abbas was one of Yasser Arafat's top generals. His name is forever linked to an operation in 1985 that sparked an international crisis: the hijacking of an Italian cruise liner named the Achille Lauro and the death of Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly American tourist. This memoir by the wife of Abu al-Abbas recalls an era of Palestinian resistance, the hard realities of a cause that faced impossible odds, and the irony that the death of a single man should outweigh all arguments of right and wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Abu al-Abbas told his wife . . . that his intention was \"to carry out an honorable operation against the Israeli Army . . . . I wanted them to reach Ashdod: not to fight the passengers on board [the Achille Lauro].\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Abu al-Abbas] was to be haunted by the crime for the rest of his life. And when he died mysteriously in US custody in a Baghdad prison camp after America's 2003 invasion, all the world remembered of Al-Abbas was a crippled man called Leon Klinghoffer. No-one cared how an apparently healthy man would die in American hands.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Robert Fisk, The Independent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Reem Al-Nimer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1614570787\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781614570783\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cune Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Reem Al-Nimer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47418991739135,"sku":"9781614570783","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_54090c6d-a8ae-4730-8123-8c2371dc2080.jpg?v=1761508769","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/curse-of-the-achille-lauro-reem-al-nimer-9781614570783","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}