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The Age of Jihad : Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East
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The Age of Jihad : Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East Hardcover - 2016

by Cockburn, Patrick

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  • Title The Age of Jihad : Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East
  • Author Cockburn, Patrick
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Hardback
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Verso Books
  • Date 2016-10
  • Features Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP96982887
  • ISBN 9781784784492 / 1784784494
  • Weight 1.8 lbs (0.82 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6 x 1.6 in (23.62 x 15.24 x 4.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Library of Congress subjects Jihad, Middle East - Politics and government - 21st
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016449025
  • Dewey Decimal Code 956.054

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Citations

  • Choice, 03/01/2017, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 01/01/0001, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/03/2016, Page 0

About the author

Patrick Cockburn is a Middle East correspondent for the Independent and has worked previously for the Financial Times. He has written three books on Iraq's recent history, including the National Book Circle Awards- shortlisted The Occupation and Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession (with Andrew Cockburn), as well as a memoir, The Broken Boy, and, with his son, a book on schizophrenia, Henry's Demons, which was shortlisted for a Costa Award. He won the Martha Gellhorn Prize in 2005, the James Cameron Prize in 2006, and the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2009. More recently he has been awarded Foreign Commentator of the Year at the 2013 Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards, Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year in British Journalism Award 2014, and Foreign Reporter of the Year in Press Awards 2014.