Sinjar : 14 days that saved the Yazidis from Islamic State /
Shand, Susan,
Sinjar : 14 days that saved the Yazidis from Islamic State / Susan Shand. - xiii, 240 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cries for help -- Before the invasion -- Invasion : Sunday August 3 -- First reactions : Monday August 4 -- Appeals : Tuesday August 5 -- The red line : Wednesday August 6, Thursday August 7 -- America responds : Friday August 8, Saturday August 9 -- The prime minister : Sunday August 10, Monday August 11, Tuesday August 12 -- The mountain is empty : Wednesday August 13, Thursday August 14 -- Kocho : Friday Aug. 15.
How were new Yazidi immigrants working from a Super 8 motel in Maryland able to help defeat the warriors of Islamic State on the battlefield? This is the extraordinary tale of how a few American-Yazidis in Washington, DC, mobilized a small, forgotten office in the American government to intervene militarily in Iraq to avert a devastating humanitarian crisis. While Islamic State massacred many thousands of Yazidi men and sold thousands more Yazidi women into slavery, the U.S. intervention saved the lives of 50,000 Yazidis.
9781493033652 1493033654
2018037781
IS (Organization)
Yezidis--Crimes against--History--Iraq--21st century.
Yezidi women--Crimes against--History--Iraq--21st century.
Genocide--History--Iraq--21st century.
United States--Military relations--Iraq.
Iraq--Military relations--United States.
Sinjar : 14 days that saved the Yazidis from Islamic State / Susan Shand. - xiii, 240 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cries for help -- Before the invasion -- Invasion : Sunday August 3 -- First reactions : Monday August 4 -- Appeals : Tuesday August 5 -- The red line : Wednesday August 6, Thursday August 7 -- America responds : Friday August 8, Saturday August 9 -- The prime minister : Sunday August 10, Monday August 11, Tuesday August 12 -- The mountain is empty : Wednesday August 13, Thursday August 14 -- Kocho : Friday Aug. 15.
How were new Yazidi immigrants working from a Super 8 motel in Maryland able to help defeat the warriors of Islamic State on the battlefield? This is the extraordinary tale of how a few American-Yazidis in Washington, DC, mobilized a small, forgotten office in the American government to intervene militarily in Iraq to avert a devastating humanitarian crisis. While Islamic State massacred many thousands of Yazidi men and sold thousands more Yazidi women into slavery, the U.S. intervention saved the lives of 50,000 Yazidis.
9781493033652 1493033654
2018037781
IS (Organization)
Yezidis--Crimes against--History--Iraq--21st century.
Yezidi women--Crimes against--History--Iraq--21st century.
Genocide--History--Iraq--21st century.
United States--Military relations--Iraq.
Iraq--Military relations--United States.