All Lara's Wars
- Authors
- Wojciech Jagielski
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press
- Tags
- political science;death;cold war;family;grief;geopolitics;government;political;philosophy;war books;death and dying;relationships;health;resilience;isis;political books;relationship books;politics;grief recovery;handbook;grief books;russia;miscarriage;terrorism;afterlife;grief counseling and grief therapy;history of russia;grief and loss;books on grief;books on grief and loss;domestic terrorism;world politics;counterterrorism;political science books;terrorism and homeland security
- Date
- 2020-09-10T21:28:05Z
- Size
- 11.33 MB
- Lang
- en
The true story of one woman's journey after her sons joined ISIS. "A painfully authentic account, told with sensitivity and literary artistry." Magdalena Kici#324;skaIn All Lara's Wars, the great events of the last half-centurythe realignment of Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union, and the rise in the Middle East of ISIS and its quest for a new Caliphateconverge in this account of a Chechen-Georgian family whose two sons become radicalized, and how their motherLaratravels to Syria by bus and at great risk, not to join them but to bring them home. By then, the older son is a high level commander and the younger son a respected soldier in ISIS's army. The story is told with a sense of wonder at the contemporary world and all the ways it resembles a primitive and violent land where all struggles are to the death, and there is an epic battle going on between forces of good and evil that cannot be understood other...