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 that they named Rojava. To the
medievalists of ISIS, the emergence of a haven of tolerance and
democracy on the frontier of their new caliphate was an affront.
They amassed 12,000 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 conscript
into the Iranian army, Azad Cudi had faced being forced to fight
his own Kurdish people. Instead he had deserted, seeking 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,
trying to shatter the Kurds in a decisive battle, besieged the
northern city of Kobani. In Long Shot, Azad tells the inside story
of how a group of activists and idealists withstood a ferocious
assault and, street by street, house by house, took back their land
in a victory that was to prove the turning point in the war against
ISIS. By turns devastating, inspiring and lyrical, this is an
unique account of modern war and of the incalculable price of
victory as a few thousand men and women achieved the impossible and
kept their dream of freedom alive.
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