Three Weeks in July

Name: Three Weeks in July
Brand: Harper UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Adam Wishart
ISBN: 9780008671020

Author: Adam Wishart, James Nally

Narrator: Mark Elstob

Unabridged: 11 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Mudlark

Published: 06/19/2025

Categories: Nonfiction, Political Science, Terrorism, True Crime, Organized Crime, Public Policy, History, European History

Synopsis

'A superb book Observer ‘Gripping, vivid and compelling’ – ‘Humane, absorbing and meticulous’ – ‘An extraordinary book’ James O’Brien, Three Weeks in July Three Weeks in July A true-crime investigation interwoven with high-stakes politics and history, it reveals untold accounts of the response to 7/7 by the government and the Metropolitan Police, as well as their efforts to prevent a second wave of attacks. Drawing on insights from key figures like Tony Blair, Peter Clarke (head of the Anti-Terrorist Branch at the Metropolitan Police) and Sir Ian Blair (Metropolitan Police commissioner), as well as victims and first responders, the book chronicles the frenzy of the first hours after the attack and the pivotal three weeks of police work, forensics and political machinations whose repercussions are still being felt to this day. Three Weeks in July

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' is a meticulously assembled and grippingly told account of the biggest act of murder on English soil since the second world war … [A] superb book' – ‘This is a very good book indeed, a gripping, vivid and compelling reconstruction of an extraordinary few weeks that contains an astonishing degree of detail.’ ‘A humane, absorbing, meticulous recreation of the events of that July day and the febrile three weeks that followed’ – ‘An extraordinary book …The detail is granular, the research is forensic and the insights from key figures such as Tony Blair and the late Metropolitan Police commissioner Ian Blair are illuminating, and all are deployed in the service of a narrative that never lets up … It is this marriage of depth and detail with breathless, frequently filmic storytelling that ensures delivers the excitement promised by the cover without ever neglecting the deadly seriousness of the story being told.’