Long Shot

Author Azad Cudi
Narrator Ash Rizi
Publisher Orion
Publish Date 14 February 2019
Run Time 7 hours and 36 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Autobiography: historical, political and military, Irregular or guerrilla forces and warfare, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict.

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In September 2014, Azad Cudi became one of seventeen snipers deployed when ISIS, trying to shatter the Kurds in a decisive battle, besieged the northern city of Kobani. In LONG SHOT, he tells the inside story of how a group of activists and idealists withstood a ferocious assault and, street by street, house by house, took back their land in a victory that was to prove the turning point in the war against ISIS. By turns devastating, inspiring and lyrical, this is a unique account of modern war and of the incalculable price of victory as a few thousand men and women achieved the impossible and kept their dream of freedom alive.

Critics Review

A book to marvel at, learn from, and return to again and again

John le Carré

Simply outstanding . . . powerful

BOOKLIST

Profoundly affecting . . . There are horrors but also humanity - inspiration, even, alongside the tragedy. A surprisingly lyrical tribute to a much-put-upon people and to fallen comrades in arms that deserves a wide audience

IRISH NEWS

Vivid

DAILY MIRROR

Striking and memorable

WALL STREET JOURNAL

A propulsive memoir that captures the grim reality of small-scale conflict and reveals the fragmented politics of the Middle East today

KIRKUS

Gripping . . . His story, elegantly told, will resonate long after the final ISIS fighter falls

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