Go behind the headlines to explore the wider background of news stories that are making a major impact across the world. In Hostage-takers, we ask who are today's hostage-takers and what do they want? What drives them to extreme action? We look at how captivity and stress affect the victims and ask whether we should negotiate with hostage-takers. How can lives be saved and how can hostage-taking be prevented in the first place?

 

This book is part of a book series called Behind the News .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Hachette Children's Group .

Philip Steele is an experienced author of history books for children.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Held at gunpoint
• 2: The longer view
• 3: Who and why
• 4: Inside story: Colombia 2002-08
• 5: The big questions
• 6: Captivity
• 7: Inside story: Kenya and Somalia 2011-12
• 8: The big questions
• 9: Negotiation
• 10: Inside story: Midland City Alabama USA 2013
• 11: The big questions
• 12: Risk and rescue
• 13: Inside story: Moscow Russia 2002
• 14: The big questions
• 15: Terror in the news
• 16: Inside story: Tigantourine Algeria 2013
• 17: The big questions
• 18: Global justice?
• 19: Inside story: Aracaju Brazil 2012
• 20: The big questions