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Black Flags

The Rise of ISIS

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Publisher Description

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • In a thrilling dramatic narrative, the award-winning reporter traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents. 

“Gripping. . . . For readers interested in the roots of the Islamic State and the evil genius of its godfather, there is no better book to begin with than Black Flags.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Drawing on unique high-level access to CIA and Jordanian sources, Warrick weaves gripping, moment-by-moment operational details with the perspectives of diplomats and spies, generals and heads of state, many of whom foresaw a menace worse than al Qaeda and tried desperately to stop it. Black Flags is a brilliant and definitive history that reveals the long arc of today’s most dangerous extremist threat.

GENRE
Politics & Current Events
RELEASED
2015
September 29
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
368
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
14
MB

Customer Reviews

Bwhite1919 ,

Great Read

Excellent read on the back story and rise of ISIS. The book had great momentum and never felt like it was dragging on. Even when getting into the technical information that you needed to understand in order to follow the story. Great book, great author. Well done.

GigaPan ,

Excellent

There are going to be superlative reviews of this book by people that are more focused on the topic than I; what I want to praise this book is simply the maps that were scanned at a high resolution so that you could read them. I wish this were the case with other ebooks.

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