Patrick Cockburn

The Age of Jihad

Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East

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Produktbeschreibung

From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle East's disintegration

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso Books
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9781786630421
• ISBN-10: 1786630427
• Artikelnr.: 47485917

Autorenporträt

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.