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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
May 2010
On Sale: May 4, 2010
318 pages
ISBN: 0151014183
EAN: 9780151014187
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In the wake of the news that the 9/11 hijackers had lived in
Europe, journalist Ian Johnson wondered how such a radical
group could sink roots into Western soil. Most accounts
reached back twenty years, to U.S. support of Islamist
fighters in Afghanistan. But Johnson dug deeper, to the
start of the Cold War, uncovering the untold story of a
group of ex-Soviet Muslims who had defected to Germany
during World War II. There, they had been fashioned into a
well-oiled anti-Soviet propaganda machine. As that war ended
and the Cold War began, West German and U.S. intelligence
agents vied for control of this influential group, and at
the center of the covert tug of war was a quiet mosque in
Munich—radical Islam’s first beachhead in the
West.nnCulled from an array of sources, including newly
declassified documents, A Mosque in Munich interweaves the
stories of several key players: a Nazi scholar turned
postwar spymaster; key Muslim leaders across the globe,
including members of the Muslim Brotherhood; and naïve CIA
men eager to fight communism with a new weapon, Islam. A
rare ground-level look at Cold War spying and a revelatory
account of the West’s first, disastrous encounter with
radical Islam, A Mosque in Munich is as captivating as it is
crucial to our understanding the mistakes we are still
making in our relationship with Islamists today
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