The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State
William McCants traces the Islamic State’s roots in apocalyptic prophecy, from al-Qaeda in Iraq to the declaration of a caliphate in 2014. He shows how belief in an imminent end-times battle shaped its strategy, its brutality and its appeal to recruits.
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Audrey Kurth Cronin
After the dramatic sweep across Iraq last summer, authors churned out a lot of books of variable quality, analyzing ISIS. This is the best book on ISIS I’ve read. It explains the group’s ideas, history, and structure in an in-depth scholarly way that is nonetheless accessible to the novice reader.
Interview · January 2015
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