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  | | The Age of Jihad(1st Edition) Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn, Verso Books Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 2016 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-449-2, ISBN: 1-78478-449-4 "Award winning journalist chronicles the major conflict of our times This is essential reading for anyone interested in the collapse of the Middle East, and the devastating role of the West in the creation of this hellish crucible. In "The Age of Jihad" Patrick Cockburn, the author of the best-selling "The Rise of Islamic State," exposes the dominant conflict of our time the Sunni Shia war, and the subsequent origins of ISIS. As he shows ..." |
 | | The Rise of Islamic State(Updated) ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution by Patrick Cockburn Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2015 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-040-1, ISBN: 1-78478-040-5 "The essential “on the ground” report on the fastest-growing new threat in the Middle East, from the winner of the 2014 Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year Award Born of the Iraqi and Syrian civil wars, the Islamic State astonished the world in 2014 by creating a powerful new force in the Middle East. By combining religious fanaticism and military prowess, the new self-declared caliphate poses a threat to the political status quo of t ..." |
 | | The Occupation(1st Edition) War and Resistance in Iraq by Patrick Cockburn Paperback, 229 Pages, Published 2007 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-164-9, ISBN: 1-84467-164-X "A compelling, masterly portrait of a country revaged by foreign occupation.In February 2003, Patrick Cockburn secretly crossed the Tigris river from Syria into Iraq just before the US/British invasion, and has covered the war ever since. In The Occupation, he provides a vivid and disturbing picture of a country in turmoil, and the dangers and privations endured by its people. The Occupation explores the mosaic of communities in Iraq, th ..." |
 | | Out of the Ashes(Updated) The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein by Andrew Cockburn, Patrick Cockburn Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2000 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-092983-1, ISBN: 0-06-092983-9 "When the United States and its allies launched Operation Desert Storm against Iraq in 1991 in retaliation for that nation's invasion of Kuwait, the plans to bomb "command and control" centres had a clear, albeit largely unspoken, objective: "We don't do assassinations," National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft has acknowledged, "but yes, we targeted all the places where Saddam might have been." The only problem: he wasn't there and ..." |
 | | War In The Age Of Trump The Defeat Of Isis, The Fall Of The Kurds, The Conflict With Iran by Patrick Cockburn 320 Pages, Published 2020 by Verso Books ISBN-13: 978-1-83976-040-2, ISBN: 1-83976-040-0 |
 | | The Age of Jihad(Reprint) Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2017 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-042-1, ISBN: 1-78663-042-7 "From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle East's disintegration The Age of Jihad charts the turmoil of today's Middle East and the devastating role the West has played in the region from 2001 to the present. 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 ..." |
 | | Henry's Demons(Reprint) A Father and Son's Journey Out of Madness by Patrick Cockburn, Henry Cockburn Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2012 by Scribner Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-5471-7, ISBN: 1-4391-5471-6 "On a cold February day two months after his twentieth birthday, Henry Cockburn waded into the Newhaven estuary outside Brighton, England, and nearly drowned. Voices, he said, had urged him to do it. Nearly halfway around the world in Afghanistan, journalist Patrick Cockburn learned from his wife, Jan, that his son had suffered a breakdown and had been admitted to a hospital. Ten days later, Henry was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Narrat ..." |
 | | Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Battle for the Future of Iraq by Patrick Cockburn, Mel Levine Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2008 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-5148-5, ISBN: 1-4165-5148-4 "Time magazine listed him as one of its "100 People Who Shape Our World." Newsweek featured him on its cover under the headline "How Al-Sadr May Control U.S. Fate in Iraq." Paul Bremer denounced him as a "Bolshevik Islamist" and ordered that he be captured "dead or alive." Who is Muqtada al-Sadr, and why is he so vital to the future of Iraq and, arguably, the entire Middle East? In this compellingly readable account, prize-winning jour ..." |
 | | Muqtada al - Saaadr and the Shia Insurgency in Iraq by Patrick Cockburn Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2009 by Faber And Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-23976-4, ISBN: 0-571-23976-5 "2 The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad and the Roots of the Sunni- Shia schism by Barnaby Rogerson (Abacus, London 2006) PP- 339-45- 3 Faith and Power: The politics of Islam by Edward Mortimer (Faber and Faber, London 1982) pp. 39 -55. 4 www.Sistani.org, 3 June 2007. There are four different questions asking if it is permitted to play chess, all of which receive the same negative answer. 5 The Shi'ite Movement in Iraq by Faleh A. Jabar ..." |
 | | The Occupation War and Resistance in Iraq by Patrick Cockburn Hardcover, 229 Pages, Published 2006 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-100-7, ISBN: 1-84467-100-3 "National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 2006. In March 2003, Patrick Cockburn secretly crossed the Tigris river from Syria into Iraq just before the US/British invasion, and has covered the war ever since. In The Occupation, he provides a vivid and disturbing picture of a country in turmoil, and the dangers and privations endured by its people.The Occupation explores the mosaic of communities in Iraq, The US and Britain’s failure to ..." |
 | | Out of the Ashes(1st Edition) The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein by Andrew Cockburn, Patrick Cockburn Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 1999 by Harper ISBN-13: 978-0-06-019266-2, ISBN: 0-06-019266-6 "The world has changed since 1990. The cold war has ended, the Soviet Union has disappeared, new governments have taken power in Washington and around the globe. But one familiar, dreaded face still looms over the international landscape--that of Saddam Hussein. At the end of the Gulf War, the White House was confident that the Iraqi dictator's days were numbered. His army had been routed, his country had been bombed back into a preindu ..." |
 | | Getting Russia Wrong The End of Kremlinology by Patrick Cockburn Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 1989 by Verso Books ISBN-13: 978-0-86091-977-3, ISBN: 0-86091-977-3 "Looks at the forces shaping modern Soviet society, explains why Western expectations were so far off, and describes how past events have led to thes changes." |
 | | The Jihadis Return(1st Edition) ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising by Patrick Cockburn Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2014 by Or Books ISBN-13: 978-1-939293-59-6, ISBN: 1-939293-59-6 "How could things have gone so badly wrong? Writing in these pages with customary calmness and clarity, and drawing on unrivaled experience as a reporter in the region, Cockburn analyzes the unfolding of one of the West's greatest foreign policy debacles and the rise of the new jihadis." |
 | | Henry's Demons by Patrick Cockburn, Henry Cockburn Paperback, 308 Pages, Published 2011 by Simon & Schuster Ltd International Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-84739-859-8, ISBN: 1-84739-859-6 "An honest and harrowing dual memoir by a British journalist and his son, about the son's sudden descent into schizophrenia. It tells of Henry's steep descent into mental illness and of his father Patrick's journey towards understanding the changes it has wrought." |
 | | Henry's Demons(1st Edition) Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story by Patrick Cockburn, Henry Cockburn, S. Story Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2011 by Scribner ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-5470-0, ISBN: 1-4391-5470-8 "On a cold February day two months after his twentieth birthday, Henry Cockburn waded into the Newhaven estuary outside Brighton, England, and nearly drowned. Voices, he said, had urged him to do it. Nearly halfway around the world in Afghanistan, journalist Patrick Cockburn learned from his wife, Jan, that his son had suffered a breakdown and had been admitted to a hospital. Ten days later, Henry was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Narrat ..." |
 | | The Broken Boy(Updated) by Patrick Cockburn Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2006 by Vintage Books International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-09-945923-1, ISBN: 0-09-945923-X "The Broken Boy Patrick Cockburn's parents had returned to Ireland, unaware of the fact that a polio epidemic had broken out in Cork City. At six, Patrick caught the disease. This is a memoir of Patrick Cockburn's own experience of polio, a portrait of his parents, and the story of the Cork epidemic, a great polio epidemic in the world. Full description" |
 | | Saddam Hussein(1st Edition) An American Obsession by Andrew Cockburn, Patrick Cockburn Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2002 by Verso Books ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-422-9, ISBN: 1-85984-422-7 ""The idea of direct invasion is the greatest threat to Saddam. It avoids the problems of securing local allies, inside and outside Iraq, which bedevil any indirect approach to get rid of him. But it has one immense disadvantage from the US point of view ...if the US invades Iraq to install its own government it will be taking direct physical control of an area containing more than half the world's oil reserves. It will look like the fou ..." |
 | | Syria Burning A Short History of a Catastrophe by Charles Glass, Patrick Cockburn Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2016 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-516-1, ISBN: 1-78478-516-4 "Since its commencement in the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian civil war has claimed in excess of 200,000 lives, with an estimated 8 million Syrians, more than a third of the country's population, forced to flee their homes. A stalemate now exists but out of the vacuum has emerged the Sunni insurgents ISIS who now, it is estimated occupies some 35% of the country, as well as vast territory across the border in Iraq. The we ..." |
 | | Behind Enemy Lies War, News and Chaos in the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn Softcover, Published 2021 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-83976-396-0, ISBN: 1-83976-396-5 |
 | | Chaos and Caliphate Jihadis and the West in the struggle for the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn Paperback, 428 Pages, Published 2016 by Or Books ISBN-13: 978-1-68219-028-9, ISBN: 1-68219-028-5 "What emerges is the fine grain and nuance of an unfolding tragedy in which, in contrast to the often facile proclamations of politicians and much of the media: "These are not black-and-white situations, good guys against bad, vile tyrant ..." |
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