Long Shot
my life as a sniper in the fight against isis
$24.35
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
27 January 2020
Summary
Long Shot: A Sniper’s Story of Survival Against ISIS
In September 2014, Azad Cudi became one of seventeen snipers deployed when ISIS besieged the northern city of Kobani, attempting to shatter the Kurds in a decisive battle. In LONG SHOT, he 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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474609791 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474609791 |
| Author: | Azad Cudi |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 27 January 2020 |
| Weight: | 235g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 24mm |
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A book to marvel at, learn from, and return to again and again
Simply outstanding … powerful - BOOKLISTProfoundly affecting … There are horrors but also humanity - inspiration, even, alongside the tragedy. A surprisingly lyrical tribute to a much-put-upon people and to fallen comrades in arms that deserves a wide audience - IRISH NEWSStriking and memorable - WALL STREET JOURNALAbout The Author
Azad Cudi
Azad is a 34-year-old British national from a Kurdish background. Based in London and Brussels, Azad grew up in Iran, where he was conscripted into the army and escaped to the UK. Aged 19, he was granted asylum and citizenship, learnt English and began working as a journalist for the Kurdish diaspora media. In 2011, Azad was working for a television station in Stockholm when the Syrian civil war broke out and the Kurds established their autonomous enclave. Azad’s response was to fly out to Syria and work as a social worker, but as the civil war expanded he became a fighter in the volunteer army, the YPG.
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