Long shot : my life as a sniper in the fight against ISIS
Cudi, Azad2019
Books, Manuscripts
As Syria imploded in civil war in 2011, Kurdish volunteers in the north rose up to free their homeland from centuries of repression and create a progressive sanctuary that they named Rojava. To the medievalists of ISIS, the emergence of a haven of tolerance and democracy on the frontier of their new caliphate was an affront. They amassed 12,000 men, heavy artillery, tanks, mortars and ranks of suicide bombers to crush the uprising. Against them stood 2,500 volunteer fighters armed with 40-year-old rifles. There was only one way for the Kurds to survive. They would have to kill the invaders one by one. A decade earlier, as a 19-year-old conscript into the Iranian army, Azad Cudi had faced being forced to fight his own Kurdish people. Instead he had deserted, seeking asylum in Britain. Now, as he returned to his homeland to help build a new Kurdistan, he found he would have to pick up a gun once more. In September 2014, Azad became one of 17 snipers deployed when ISIS, trying to shatter the Kurds in a decisive battle, besieged the northern city of Kobani. In LONG SHOT, Azad tells the inside story of how a group of activists and idealists withstood a ferocious assault and, street by street, house by house, took back their land in a victory that was to prove the turning point in the war against ISIS. By turns devastating, inspiring and lyrical, this is an unique account of modern war and of the incalculable price of victory as a few thousand men and women achieved the impossible and kept their dream of freedom alive.
Main title:
Long shot : my life as a sniper in the fight against ISIS / Azad Cudi, Alex Perry.
Author:
Cudi, Azad, authorPerry, Alex, author
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019.London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019.©2019.
Collation:
253 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, plates, maps ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Outside Sarrin, southern Rojava, April 2015 -- 2.Kobani, December 2013 to April 2015 -- 3.Kobani, September-October 2014 -- 4.Britain and Sweden, 2004-2013; Rojava, September---December 2013 -- 5.Qamishli, December 2013 to June 2014 -- 6.Kobani, October 2014 -- 7.Sardasht, 1983-1997 -- 8.Kobani, October 2014 -- 9.Kobani, October 2014 -- 10.Mahabad, 2002 -- 11.Kobani, November 2014 -- 12.Kobani, November 2014 -- 13.Iran to Europe, 2003-2004 -- 14.Kobani, November-December 2014 -- 15.Kobani, December 2014 -- 16.Leeds, 2004-2011 -- 17.Kobani, December 2014 to January 2015 -- 18.Outside Kobani, January-February 2015 -- 19.Southwest of Kobani, March 2015 -- 20.Close to the Euphrates, March-April 2015 -- 21.Kobani, April-May 2015 -- 22.Kobani, May-June 2015 -- 23.Kobani, July 2015 to April 2016 -- 24.Silemani, Frankfurt, Brussels and Leeds, 2016-2018.
ISBN:
9781474609777 (hardback)14746097759781474609784 (paperback)
Dewey class:
956.910423
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
40709
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