{{Short description|Book by Walter Laqueur}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox book | image = VoicesOfTerror.jpg | caption = Cover of the first edition | alt = Refer to caption | author = Walter Laqueur | language = English | subject = Terrorism | publisher = Reed Press | pub_date = 2004 | country = United States | media_type = Print (paperback) | pages = 520 | isbn = 1-59429-035-0 | oclc = 55105719 | dewey = 303.625 | congress = HV6431.V65 2004 }} '''''Voices of Terror: Manifestos, Writings and Manuals of Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Other Terrorists from Around the World and Throughout the Ages''''' is a book edited by scholar and historian Walter Laqueur. The book is a comprehensive anthology of 82 primary source documents related to terrorism. Each document is presented with a brief introduction and short explanatory text.
== Contents == The book is a comprehensive anthology of 82 primary source documents examining the morality, psychology, and ethics of ideological violence. Each document is presented with a brief introduction and short explanatory text. This book is designed as a reference for the more serious students of history and the use of terror.<ref name="Taylor2004">{{Cite journal |last=Taylor |first=Robert H. |date=2004-12-22 |title=Editor's Shelf |journal=Parameters |language=en |volume=34 |issue=4 |pages=129–131 |issn=0031-1723}}</ref>
The book is divided into three sections.<ref name="ABPR2004" /> The book documents the emotions, principles, and rhetoric used by those who espouse violence whether for tyranny, revolution, guerrilla warfare, and terrorism. Primary source documents are presented from figures such as Clausewitz, Lenin, Karl Marx, Emma Goldman, Mao Zedong, Che Guevara, and Menachem Begin, as well as English Puritan Edward Sexby and Greek satirist Lucian of Samosata.<ref name="CS2005">{{Cite journal |date=2005-03-01 |title=Take Note |journal=Contemporary Sociology |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=217–224 |doi=10.1177/009430610503400270 |issn=0094-3061}}</ref>
The final section of the book includes 26 documents of contemporary Islamic terrorist leaders and groups such as Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and Hamas.<ref name="R&R2005">{{Cite journal |date=November 2005 |title=Voices of terror; manifestos, writings, and manuals of Al Qaida, Hamas, and other terrorists from arounds the world and throughout the ages. |journal=Reference and Research Book News |volume=20 |issue=4 |pages=– |issn=0887-3763}}</ref>
== Publication history == It was edited by Walter Laqueur, a scholar of geopolitics and history.<ref name="R&R2005" /><ref name="Beaudry2006">{{Cite journal |last=Beaudry |first=Mark H. |date=April 2006 |title=Voices of Terror: Manifestos, Writings and Manuals of Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Other Terrorists from Around the World and Throughout the Ages |journal=Security Management |volume=50 |issue=4 |pages=106 |issn=0145-9406}}</ref><ref name="Pham2004" /> Its first edition was 520 pages long, published in paperback form in 2004 in New York City by Reed Press.<ref name="CS2005" /><ref name="R&R2005" /><ref name="Pham2004" /> It was also published by Sourcebooks in a 400 page edition.<ref name="Beaudry2006" /> The first two sections are largely made up of content from two of his earlier anthologies, but the third has 150 pages of new material in addition to notes.<ref name="Pham2004" /><ref name="Gage2011">{{Cite journal |last=Gage |first=Beverly |date=June 2011 |title=Terrorism and the American Experience: A State of the Field |journal=The Journal of American History |language=en |volume=98 |issue=1 |pages=73–94, 18–19 |issn=0021-8723}}</ref><ref name="ABPR2004">{{Cite book |title=American Book Publishing Record |publisher=R. R. Bowker |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-8352-4683-5 |volume=1 |location=New Providence |page=572 |language=en}}</ref> Much of the content in the book first appeared in English here.<ref name="Pham2004" />
== Reception == J. Peter Pham for ''The National Interest'' called its scope "immense",<ref name="Pham2004">{{Cite journal |last=Pham |first=J. Peter |author-link=J. Peter Pham |date=2004-09-01 |title=Taking Terrorists at Their Word |url=https://www.inthenationalinterest.com/Articles/Vol3Issue35/Vol3Issue35PhamPFV.html |url-status=dead |journal=The National Interest |language=en-US |location=Washington, D.C. |issn=0884-9382 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928041816/http://www.inthenationalinterest.com/Articles/Vol3Issue35/Vol3Issue35PhamPFV.html |archive-date=2007-09-28 |access-date=2006-09-07}}</ref> while Mark H. Beaudry for the journal ''Security Management'' called it "brilliantly presented and meticulously documented" and "probably the single best volume on terrorist writings".<ref name="Beaudry2006" /> A reviewer for the journal ''Parameters'' called it comprehensive.<ref name="Taylor2004" /> Jeremy Moses for the ''Australian Journal of Political Science'' was critical, and criticized it for not giving a proper definition of terrorism, remarking that "one might think that a 520-page collection of writings on the subject would have to start with some kind of definition".<ref name="Moses2006">{{Cite journal |last=Moses |first=Jeremy |date=2006-09-01 |title=Voices of Terror: Manifestos, Writings, and Manuals of Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Other Terrorists from Around the World and Throughout the Ages |journal=Australian Journal of Political Science |volume=41 |issue=3 |pages=479–480 |doi=10.1080/10361140600849059 |issn=1036-1146}}</ref>
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