My journey into the heart of terror : ten days in the Islamic State / Jürgen Todenhöfer ; translated by A.O. May.
TITLE:
My journey into the heart of terror : ten days in the Islamic State / Jürgen Todenhöfer ; translated by A.O. May.
Alternate Title:
Into the heart of terror : ten days in the Islamic State
Publication Date:
2016
Publication Information:
Vancouver : Greystone Books/Berkeley.
Physical Description:
254 p. [24] p. of plates : col. ill., maps.
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Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
ISIS beheads journalists - and yet one, JÞurgen TodenhÞofer, was invited to visit its fighters in Mosul, after months of negotiations. Accompanied by his son who photographed the journey, he asked them to explain their beliefs, motivations, and goals. This book is the result of those conversations. TodenhÞofer offers startling insights into what ISIS thinks, what it wants - and how it can be defeated. Only by understanding our enemies, TodenhÞofer believes, can we combat ISIS's radical, un-Islamic vision and the terror and destruction it brings. JÞurgen TodenhÞofer is a German author, politician, a former judge, and journalist. In 2014 he became the first Western journalist to be granted access to territories controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, where he met with gun wielding child soldiers and interviewed ISIS fighters, prisoners, and members of the public caught up in the battle for Iraq and Syria.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781771642248
General Note:
Maps on lining papers.
