The essential "on the ground" report on the fastest-growing new threat in the Middle East from the Winner of the 2014 Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year Award
Patrick Cockburn is currently Middle East correspondent for the Independent and worked previously for the Financial Times. He has written three books on Iraq's recent history, including 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. Winner of the Foreign Affairs Journalist of The Year Award 2014.
Quite simply, the best Western journalist at work in Iraq
today.
*Seymour Hersh*
Accessible . Cockburn describes a continuing tragedy in which
hubris and optimism destroyed a seemingly promising revolution.
*New York Times*
Amid the many books published on the current conflicts reshaping
the Middle East, few are as informative or perceptive asThe Rise of
Islamic State.
*Observer*
Patrick Cockburn has produced the first history of the rise of the
Islamic State . No one is better equipped for this task .
Indispensable.
*Daily Telegraph*
Patrick Cockburn spotted the emergence of ISIS much earlier than
anybody else and wrote about it with a depth of understanding that
was just in a league of its own. Nobody else was writing that stuff
at that time, and the judges wondered whether the Government should
consider pensioning off the whole of MI6 and hiring Patrick
Cockburn instead.
*British Journalism Awards judges*
A wonderful book.
*BBC News*
Excellent.
*Guardian*
His dispatches from Iraq are an exemplary untangling of the
political and social complexity that lies behind one of the world's
great crises. He writes fairly, compassionately and clearly, with a
steady and knowledgeable eye.
*Orwell Prize judges*
Patrick Cockburn, of the LondonIndependent, is one of the best
informed on-the-ground journalists. He was almost always correct on
Iraq.
*Sidney Blumenthal, in an email to Hillary Clinton*
Authoritative.
*Washington Post*
Has anyone covered this nightmare [in the Greater Middle East]
better than the world's least embedded reporter, Patrick Cockburn?
Not for my money. He's had the canniest, clearest-eyed view of
developments in the region for years now.
*TomDispatch*
Packed with first-class research and analysis . Cockburn draws on
his considerable journalistic prowess to render this incredibly
complex and misunderstood conflict comprehensible. His experience
forms a useful text for those at all levels of familiarity with the
conflict. His analysis offers an exceptional window into what is
without doubt the most vital conflict the world is currently
facing.
*PopMatters*
A brilliant book on ISIS.
*The Andrew Marr Show*
An invaluable history of IS along with a powerful critique of
Western policy in Iraq and Syria and an unsparing analysis of Shia
politics in Baghdad.
*London Review of Books*
The essential primer on the organization.
*Vice*
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