I have mixed feelings about this book. The title led me to believe it would be about ISIS - and, really, it only is in a peripheral way. It's not a history or a documentation of ISIS exactly - it's far more a journalist's memoir of spending time with the forces who fight ISIS. It did give a solid perspective of that much, I must admit, but it is definitely not what I was expecting. After finishing, I know much more about the damage ISIS has done to civilians and the stories of the men who fight them, but little more about ISIS than I did when I started.

THANKS TO NET GALLEY for the ARC

DO NOT READ THIS BOOK, if you want to live under the delusion that man is basically good and it doesn't matter what you believe and we can all just get along. Fantastic first person accounts of all sides and stripes in a battle that is not over and IS NOT GONE.

Best nonfiction for me in a LONG TIME! Bravo!!!

P.S. All you vets, you will find a lot of memories god and bad in these pages