Hunting Season

Zusatztext To understand Islamic State! there can be few better books to read than Hunting Season ! James Harkin's heart-breaking investigation into the kidnappings of twenty-four foreigners in Syria . . . a gripping inside view . . . Hunting Season is a masterclass in tireless investigation! war reporting and narrative journalism . It is hard to imagine a more fitting testament to Harkin's colleagues who never came home Informationen zum Autor James Harkin is an author of three previous books and a journalist who has written for the Guardian ! Vanity Fair ! the Atlantic ! the New Republic and Newsweek. He is an analyst of new social! political! and technological trends and is the director of Flockwatching - a think-tank that looks at the relationship between new media and social change. He lives in London. Klappentext Based on 3 years of on-the-ground reporting from every side of the Syrian conflict! HUNTING SEASON is Harkin's quest to uncover the truth about how and why Islamic State came to target Western hostages! who was behind it and why almost no one outside a small group of people knew anything about it until it was too late. He reveals how the campaign of kidnapping and the development of IS were joined at the hip from the beginning. Based on his groundbreaking reporting for Vanity Fair , journalist James Harkin's harrowing investigation into the abduction, captivity, and execution of American journalist James Foley and the fate of more than two-dozen other ISIS hostages. Zusammenfassung Based on his groundbreaking reporting for Vanity Fair, journalist James Harkin's harrowing investigation into the abduction, captivity, and execution of American journalist James Foley and the fate of more than two-dozen other ISIS hostages.

Product details

• Authors: James Harkin, Harkin James
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.04.2016
• EAN: 9780349141404
• ISBN: 978-0-349-14140-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 199 mm x 21 mm
• Series: ABACUS
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History; HISTORY / Middle East / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Middle East, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Middle Eastern history, Religious and theocratic ideologies, c 2010 to c 2020, c 2010 to c 2019, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions