The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East (Paperback)

A fine and courageous journalist, who has displayed a sustained commitment to laying bare the tribulations of the Middle East...This book confirms Cockburn's reputation as a reporter and analyst -- Max Hastings * Sunday Times *
This book is required reading for anyone who wants to try to understand the disaster. It should be compulsory reading for politicians, diplomats, defence chiefs and the academic think-tanks whose members make confident predictions, usually confounded by what follows. -- Allan Massie * Scotland on Sunday *
It is a brilliant tour d'horizon of the new wars, a chronicle compiled from despatches, notes and diaries. No one could be better placed for this task and no one else could have produced such a lucid and comprehensive account. -- Robert Fox * Evening Standard *
Quite simply, the best Western journalist at work in the Middle East today. -- Seymour M Hersh