If It Takes a Thousand Years: From Al-Qaeda to Hamas, How the Jihadists Think & How to Defeat Them: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the If It Takes a Thousand Years: From Al-Qaeda to Hamas, How the Jihadists Think & How to Defeat Them audiobook runs 6 hours unabridged, narrated by Shawn Compton (about 4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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| 30 min / day | 12 days |
| 1 hour / day | 6 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 days |
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What our data says
- At 6 hours, it is shorter than 77% of the 8,990 Current Affairs, Law, & Politics audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Shawn Compton
Shawn Compton narrates 160 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,476 hours in all.
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
If It Takes a Thousand Years: From Al-Qaeda to Hamas, How the Jihadists Think & How to Defeat Them is an audiobook by Jesse Petrilla: a 6-hour unabridged recording, read by Shawn Compton, released September 16, 2025, on the Current Affairs, Law, & Politics shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Shawn Compton
- Released
- September 16, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
- ISBN
- 9798331979164
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How long is the If It Takes a Thousand Years: From Al-Qaeda to Hamas, How the Jihadists Think & How to Defeat Them audiobook?
If It Takes a Thousand Years: From Al-Qaeda to Hamas, How the Jihadists Think & How to Defeat Them runs 6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4 hours.
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Who narrates If It Takes a Thousand Years: From Al-Qaeda to Hamas, How the Jihadists Think & How to Defeat Them?
If It Takes a Thousand Years: From Al-Qaeda to Hamas, How the Jihadists Think & How to Defeat Them is narrated by Shawn Compton.