The Theater
Courage and Survival in the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War
In March of 2022, the Donetsk Regional Academic Drama Theater in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was bombed by Russian forces, the worst act of mass civilian killing in the still ongoing conflict. This brief book tells the story of a select number of survivors out of the many hundreds …
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They Will Have to Die Now
Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate
In autumn 2016, Iraqi forces began operations to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State. Millennia-old, Mosul was a birthplace of Western culture but also infamous for its cruelty, from the Assyrians to Saddam Hussein. Through the eyes of soldiers and families and jihadis, award-winning reporter James Verini chronicles the combat …
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