{"product_id":"shatter-the-nations-mike-giglio-9781541742352","title":"Shatter the Nations: ISIS and the War for the Caliphate","description":"\u003cb\u003eUnflinching dispatches of an embedded war reporter covering ISIS and the unlikely alliance of forces who came together to defeat it.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe battle to defeat ISIS was an unremittingly brutal and dystopian struggle, a multi-sided war of gritty local commandos and militias. Mike Giglio takes readers to the heart of this shifting, uncertain conflict, capturing the essence of a modern war.\u003cbr\u003eAt its peak, ISIS controlled a self-styled \"caliphate\" the size of Great Britain, with a population cast into servitude that numbered in the millions. Its territory spread across Iraq and Syria as its influence stretched throughout the wider world.\u003cbr\u003eGiglio tells the story of the rise of the caliphate and the ramshackle coalition--aided by secretive Western troops and American airstrikes--that was assembled to break it down village by village, district by district. The story moves from the smugglers, traffickers, and jihadis working on the ISIS side to the victims of its zealous persecution and the local soldiers who died by the thousands to defeat it. Amid the battlefield drama, culminating in a climactic showdown in Mosul, is a dazzlingly human portrait of the destructive power of extremism, and of the tenacity and astonishing courage required to defeat it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mike Giglio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1541742354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781541742352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e PublicAffairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2019 pg. 12\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/11\/2019","brand":"Mike Giglio","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43991560487167,"sku":"9781541742352","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_60c7f3b6-e3dc-48d0-a24f-9ac66850fc62.jpg?v=1683310974","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shatter-the-nations-mike-giglio-9781541742352","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}