Though the Islamic State has lost territory, it threatens to rise again, and its followers are plotting on every continent. What compelled tens of thousands of men and women to leave comfortable, privileged lives to join a death cult in the desert? Steven Pinker called Graeme Wood’s analysis of this phenomenon in The Atlantic “fascinating, terrifying, occasionally blackly humorous.” In The Way of the Strangers, Wood uses character study, analysis, and original reporting to take us further into the Islamic State’s apocalyptic vision. The Islamic State inspired a wave of true believers to travel to Syria from Europe, America, and the Middle East, in numbers not seen since the Crusades. gripping, sobering and revelatory.”-Tom Holland, New Statesman NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS What does ISIS really want? This is the definitive account of the strategy, psychology, and fundamentalism driving the Islamic State.
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