'A book to marvel at, learn from, and return to again and again'
John le Carre The incredible inside story of a Kurdish sniper in
the battle against ISIS As Syria imploded in civil war in 2011,
Kurdish volunteers in the north rose up to free their homeland from
centuries of repression and create a progressive sanctuary of
tolerance and democracy. To the medievalists of ISIS, this was an
affront, so they amassed 10,000 men, heavy artillery, tanks,
mortars and ranks of suicide bombers to crush the uprising. Against
them stood 2,500 volunteer fighters armed with 40-year-old rifles.
There was only one way for the Kurds to survive. They would have to
kill the invaders one by one. A decade earlier, as a 19-year-old
Iranian army conscript, Azad had been forced to fight his own
people. Instead he deserted and sought asylum in Britain. Now, as
he returned to his homeland to help build a new Kurdistan, he found
he would have to pick up a gun once more. In September 2014, Azad
became one of 17 snipers deployed when ISIS besieged the northern
city of Kobani. In LONG SHOT, Azad tells the inside story of how a
group of activists and intellectuals built their own army and team
of snipers, and then fought off a ferocious assault in nine months
of bitter and bloody street battles. By turns searing, stirring,
inspiring and poetic, this is an unique account of modern war and
of how, against all odds, a few thousand men and women achieved the
impossible and kept their dream of freedom alive.
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