Black Flags

With Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joby Warrick has written an authoritative and gripping account of the rise of one of the world’s most notorious terrorist organizations. Through thorough research and interviews with key players, he offers a comprehensive overview of ISIS’s origins, its short-lived successes and ultimate failures, as well as the human cost of their reign. With this book, Warrick paints a vivid picture of what it was like to be living in Iraq and Syria during the years that ISIS was in power, and how its presence transformed the region. This review will take a closer look at Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS, including its key features, product details, pros and cons.