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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0804168938
ISBN-13
9780804168939
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221433185
Product Key Features
Book Title
Black Flags : the Rise of Isis
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Middle East / Iraq, Terrorism, Fundamentalism, World / Middle Eastern, Religion, Politics & State, Middle East / General