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War, News and Chaos in the Middle East
In this urgent and timely book, Patrick Cockburn writes the first draft of the history of the current crisis in the Middle East. Here he charts the pe...
Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East
Cockburn was the first Western journalist to warn of the dangers posed by Islamic State. His originality and breadth of vision make The Age of Jihad t...
ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution
Born of the Iraqi and Syrian civil wars, the Islamic State astonished the world in 2014 by creating a powerful new force in the Middle East. By combin...
War and Resistance in Iraq
In February 2003, Patrick Cockburn secretly crossed the Tigris river from Syria into Iraq just before the US/British invasion, and has covered the war...
It is very easy to get polio. Patrick Cockburn was six when he woke up one day in the summer of 1956 with a headache and a sore throat. His parents, C...
Claud Cockburn and the Invention of Guerrilla Journalism
Radical journalist Claud Cockburn fought successfully against the political and media establishment, writing for publications as varied as The Times a...
A Father and Son's Journey Out of Madness
Narrated by both Henry Cockburn and his father Patrick, this is the extraordinary story of the eight years since Henry's descent into schizophrenia- y...
A Memoir of Growing Up With Polio in Ireland
It is very easy to get polio. The celebrated Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn was just six years old when he woke up one day in the summer o...
Muqtada al-Sadr's men are killing more British troops than any other group in the world today. Cleric, militia leader and fiercely anti-American polit...
Time magazine listed him as one of its "100 People Who Shape Our World." Newsweek featured him on its cover under the headline "How Al-Sadr May Contro...
The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein
At the end of the Gulf War, the White House was confident that Saddam Hussein's days as Iraq's dictator were numbered. His army had been routed, his c...
An American Obsession
.The idea of direct invasion is the greatest threat to Saddam. It avoids the problems of securing local allies, inside and outside Iraq, which bedevil...
The Future of Religious Minorities in the Middle East addresses the domestic and international politics that have created conditions for contemporary ...
Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story
On a cold February day two months after his twentieth birthday, Henry Cockburn waded into the Newhaven estuary outside Brighton, England, and nearly d...
Muqtada Al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq
From one of the bravest and most experienced correspondents in the Middle East, this is the first biography of the formidable Shiite resistance leader...
Economic Parasites and Vulnerable Lives
The central claim of this book is that the dichotomy between economic dependence and economic independence is completely inadequate for describing the...
The End of Kremlinology
Well, it's about time (and why did it have to come from the "left" press?) that someone called to account all the smug Kremlinologists who insisted, e...
The West Shakes Up the Middle East
Looks at why and how all other countries support wanes and why the US is once fighting the battle and left holding the bag in the poli-geo fraught are...
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Descent Into the Abyss
This remarkable anthology chronicles more than three years of spiralling violence and despair in Syria: atrocity heaped upon atrocity, misery upon mis...
The Fall of ISIS, the Betrayal of the Kurds, the Conflict with Iran
An Unforgettable Anthology of Contemporary Reportage
This remarkable anthology of reportage chronicles more than three years of spiralling violence and despair in Syria: atrocity heaped upon atrocity, mi...