Black Flags: The Rise of Isis Contributor(s): Warrick, Joby (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804168938 ISBN-13: 9780804168939 Publisher: Anchor Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Terrorism - History | Middle East - General - Political Science | World - Middle Eastern |
Dewey: 956.910 |
LCCN: 2016304615 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" L (0.80 lbs) 384 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps |
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Publisher Description: WINNER OF THE 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION "A Best Book of 2015"--The New York Times, The Washington Post, People Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Kansas City Star, and Kirkus Reviews In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick 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. 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. |
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