Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby WarrickMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
The moment I saw this book on GR, I put it on my list. I was always intrigued by the growth of this terrorist organisation and its origins. This is a definitive and exhaustive account of the origins and rise of ISIS and its most famous leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and some background on his successor, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The book also delves on the political scenario in the Middle East especially Jordan and its neighbouring countries, Syria and Iraq and how the ISIS laid its foundation in these countries exploiting the strife of the Shia-Sunni sects. Fantastically written and thoroughly engrossing.
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