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037			_bPgw, C/O Ips Jackson 210 American Dr, Jackson, TN, USA, 38301 _nSAN 631-8630
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092			_aCudi, A. _bC964
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100	1		_aCudi, Azad, _d1983- _eauthor. _9389792
245	1	0	_aLong shot : _bthe inside story of the snipers who broke ISIS / _cAzad Cudi.
250			_aFirst Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAtlantic Monthly Press, _c2019.
264		4	_c©2019
300			_axi, 253 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (some color), maps ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
336			_acartographic image _bcri _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"First published in Great Britain in 2018 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, An imprint of Orion Publishing Group."
505	0		_aOutside Sarrin, southern Kurdistan, April 2015 -- Kobani, December 2013 to April 2015 -- Kobani, September 2014 -- Britain 2004-10; Rojava, September to December 2013 -- Qamishli, December 2013 to June 2014 -- Kobani, September 2014 -- Sardasht, 1983-1997 -- Kobani, October 2014 -- Kobani, October 2014 -- Mahabad, 2002 -- Kobani, November 2014 -- Kobani, November 2014 -- Iran to Europe, 2003 -- Kobani, November 2014 -- Kobani, December 2014 -- Leeds, 2004-2010 -- Kobani, December 2014 and January 2015 -- Outside Kobani, January 2015 -- Southwest of Kobani, February-March 2015 -- Close to the Euphrates, April 2015 -- Kobani, April-May 2015 -- Kobani, May-June 2015 -- Kobani, July 2015-August 2016 -- Suleimaniyah, Frankfurt, Brussels and Leeds 2016-18.
520			_a"A gripping narrative by an Iran-born Kurdish journalist who joined the ranks of the Kurdish army as a sniper in the fight against ISIS. In 2002, at the age of nineteen, Azad, a young Iranian-Kurdish man, was conscripted into Iran's army and forced to fight against his own people. Refusing to go to war against his fellow Kurds, Azad deserted and smuggled himself to the United Kingdom, where he was granted asylum, became a citizen, and learned English. But more than a decade later, having returned to the Middle East as a social worker in the wake of the Syrian civil war, Azad found that he would have to pick up a weapon once again. In September 2014, after twenty-four days of intensive training as a sniper, Azad became one of seventeen volunteer marksmen deployed by the Kurdish army when ISIS besieged the city of Kobani in Rojava, the newly autonomous region of the Kurds. In Long Shot, Azad tells the inside story of how the Kurdish forces fought nine months of bloody street battles against the Islamic State. Vastly outnumbered, the Kurds would have to kill the jihadis one by one, and Azad takes readers on a harrowing journey behind rebel frontlines to reveal the sniper unit's essential role in fighting, and eventually defeating, ISIS. Weaving the brutal events of war with personal and political reflection, Azad meditates on the incalculable price of victory--the permanent effects of war on the body and mind; the devastating death of two of his closest comrades; the loss of hundreds of volunteers who died in battle. But as Azad explains, these were sacrifices that saved not only a city but a people and their land. Rojava was freed, and ISIS, which once threatened the world, never fully recovered"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aCudi, Azad, _d1983- _9389792
610	2	0	_aPeople's Protection Units (Organization) _vBiography. _9389793
610	2	0	_aIS (Organization) _9269033
650		0	_aSnipers _zSyria _vBiography. _9389794
650		0	_aKurds _zIran _vBiography. _9389795
651		0	_aSyria _xHistory _yCivil War, 2011- _vPersonal narratives. _9338184
651		0	_aʻAyn al ʻArab (Syria) _xHistory, Military _y21st century. _9389796
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
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