They Will Have To Die Now: Mosul And The Fall Of The Caliphate

"I’m generally not into books about war. The epic, testosterone-laden stories of (mostly) male trials and triumphs do nothing for me. But journalist James Verini focuses on the quiet moments between battles in his book about the fight to take Mosul from ISIS. He documents the troughs between adrenaline waves, the boredom that turns fighters into philosophers and the irony of everyday indignities. War is hell, and in Verini’s prose it is also utterly absurd. But is it inevitable? Verini takes you to the front lines and forces you to confront that question over and over again."