Thanks to Editorsweblog.com, I’m passing on the link to Der Spiegel’s Web site. The German news weekly now features English translations there.

Der Spiegel recently captured its share of Americans’ brief attention spans with the book Inside 9/11: What Really Happened. The book flows with good narrative detail. It focuses on the Hamburg cell, but also has the fullest architecture-for-laymen description I’ve found of why the towers fell.

I strongly recommend it. I read about a half dozen books on 9/11 in the fall of 2002, and Inside 9/11 was easily the best. It left a vivid impression. (The squeamish might want to skip some of the more graphic descriptions, though.)

Der Spiegel does have its critics, who say it tends toward sensational, but I trust it. Plus, I needed another good European news source.