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Into the Hands of the Soldiers

Into the Hands of the Soldiers

Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East

by David D. Kirkpatrick
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/10/2019

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A poignant, deeply human portrait of Egypt during the Arab Spring, told through the lives of individuals

In 2011, Egyptians of all sects, ages and social classes shook off millennia of autocracy, then elected a Muslim Brother as president. New York Times correspondent David D. Kirkpatrick arrived in Egypt with his family less than six months before the uprising first broke out in 2011. As revolution and violence engulfed the country, he lived through Cairo's hopes and disappointments alongside the diverse population of his new city.

Into the Hands of the Soldiers is a heartbreaking story with a simple message: the failings of decades of autocratic rule are the reason for the chaos we see across the Arab world. Understanding the story of what happened in those years can help readers make sense of everything taking place across the region today – from the terrorist attacks in North Sinai to the bedlam in Syria and Libya.
ISBN:
9781408898499
9781408898499
Category:
Middle Eastern history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-10-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
384
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x23mm
Weight:
0.27kg

"Kirkpatrick watched a historic popular uprising unfold. In this book, he brings the story to vivid life through the eyes of both the poor and the powerful"
Stephen Kinzer, author of All the Shah's Men

"Both astute and insightful, and often as comical as it is tragic"
Lynsey Addario, author of It's What I Do

"Sweeping, passionate...An essential work of reportage for our time"
Philip Gourevitch, author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

"This will be the must read on the destruction of Egypt's revolution and democratic moment"
Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director of Human Rights Watch

"A twenty-first-century successor to William L. Shirer's Berlin Diary: a first-rate reporter's riveting eyewitness account of the unfolding of a world-historical tragedy. Kirkpatrick has an uncanny ability to lend a sense of real-time suspense to events in the recent past, and to get to the truth of a dauntingly elusive story"
Nicholas Lemann, author of The Promised Land

David D. Kirkpatrick

David D. Kirkpatrick is an international correspondent based in London for the New York Times. From 2011 through 2015 he was the Cairo bureau chief.

He has also been a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and a contributing editor for New York magazine. Into the Hands of the Soldiers is his first book.

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