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They Will Have to Die Now

Audiobook
Nonfiction: History
Unabridged   10 hour(s)
Publication date: 10/15/2019

They Will Have to Die Now

Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate

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Audio CD ISBN:9781684575039
Digital Download ISBN:9781684575022

Summary

They Will Have to Die Now takes the listener into the heart of the conflict against the most lethal insurgency of our time.

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Product Description

James Verini arrived in Iraq in the summer of 2016 to write about life in the Islamic State. He stayed to cover the jihadis' last great stand, the Battle of Mosul, not knowing it would go on for nearly a year, nor that it would become, in the words of the Pentagon, "the most significant urban combat since WWII."

They Will Have to Die Now takes the listener into the heart of the conflict against the most lethal insurgency of our time. We see unspeakable violence, improbable humanity, and occasional humor. We meet an Iraqi major fighting his way through the city with a bad leg; a general who taunts snipers; an American sergeant who removes his glass eye to unnerve his troops; a pair of Moslawi brothers who welcomed the Islamic State, believing, as so many Moslawis did, that it might improve their shattered lives. Verini also relates the rich history of Iraq, and of Mosul, one of the most beguiling cities in the Middle East.

Reviews/Praise

“With the eye of a novelist and a historian’s sweep, James Verini tells a moving, gripping, complexly layered story of Mosul, from the private calamities of its present to the buried dynasties of its past.” —Larissa MacFarquhar, author of Strangers Drowning

They Will Have to Die Now is the story of what happened after most Americans stopped paying attention to Iraq. It’s a small miracle that a writer as good as James Verini witnessed the battle of Mosul. His book is erudite, humane, bleakly funny, and unbearably sad. It will take its place among the very best war writing of the past two decades.” —George Packer, author of Our Man and The Assassins’ Gate

Author Bio

James Verini is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and National Geographic. He has also written for the New Yorker, the Atavist, and other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award and a George Polk Award.