They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate - Couverture rigide

Verini, James

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1786077485 ISBN 13 : 9781786077486

Editeur : Oneworld Publications, 2019

Synopsis

The battle is for a city. The war is for history.

In autumn 2016, Iraqi forces began operations to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State. Millennia-old, Mosul was a birthplace of Western culture but also infamous for its cruelty, from the Assyrians to Saddam Hussein. Through the eyes of soldiers and families and jihadis, award-winning reporter James Verini chronicles the combat that followed. 

Among the most devastating urban conflicts since World War II, the battle for Mosul was both archaic and modern. Troops and jihadis fought house by house, block by block, matching bullet for bullet, while co-ordinating their movements on WhatsApp and uploading execution videos. Verini describes how this viciously contested patch of earth came to represent a war for the soul of a country, for its history and its future.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

James Verini is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and National Geographic. He has also written for The New Yorker, the Atavist, and other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award and a George Polk Award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oneworld Publications
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1786077485
• ISBN 13: 9781786077486
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
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