The Age of Jihad
Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Verso Books
Published:14th Nov '17
Should be back in stock very soon
From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle East's disintegration
Cockburn was the first Western journalist to warn of the dangers posed by Islamic State. His originality and breadth of vision make The Age of Jihad the most in-depth analysis of the regional crisis in the Middle East to date.
2001 heralded a new age of disintegration in the Middle East. This has had a murderous impact on the people who live there but also the world beyond. Beginning with the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, Cockburn explores the vast geopolitical struggle that is the Sunni-Shia conflict, a clash that shapes the war on terror, western military interventions, the evolution of the insurgency, the civil wars in Yemen, Libya and Syria, the Arab Spring, the fall of regional dictators, and the rise of Islamic State.
A fine and courageous journalist, who has displayed a sustained commitment to laying bare the tribulations of the Middle East...This book confirms Cockburn's reputation as a reporter and analyst -- Max Hastings * Sunday Times *
This book is required reading for anyone who wants to try to understand the disaster. It should be compulsory reading for politicians, diplomats, defence chiefs and the academic think-tanks whose members make confident predictions, usually confounded by what follows. -- Allan Massie * Scotland on Sunday *
It is a brilliant tour d'horizon of the new wars, a chronicle compiled from despatches, notes and diaries. No one could be better placed for this task and no one else could have produced such a lucid and comprehensive account. -- Robert Fox * Evening Standard *
Quite simply, the best Western journalist at work in the Middle East today. -- Seymour M Hersh
ISBN: 9781786630421
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 33mm
Weight: 511g
480 pages