Mi vida como francotirador en la lucha contra el Estado Islámico
At the age of nineteen, Azad, a young Iranian Kurd, was recruited by the Iranian Army to fight against his own people. Refusing to go to war against his fellow Kurds, he defected to the UK, where he was granted asylum and learned English. More than a decade later, after returning to the Middle East as a social worker in the wake of the Syrian civil war, Azad had to pick up a gun again. In September 2014, after twenty-four days of intensive sniper training, Azad became one of seventeen volunteer snipers deployed by the Kurdish Army when the Islamic State laid siege to the town of Kobane in Rojava, its new autonomous region. This book tells the inside story of how Kurdish forces fought for nine months in bloody street battles against the Islamic State. Vastly outnumbered, the Kurds had to kill the jihadists one by one. Weaving together the brutal events of war with personal and politica...read more
