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  • Only Cry for the Living

  • Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield
  • Written by: Hollie McKay
  • Narrated by: Hollie McKay
  • Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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Only Cry for the Living

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Only once in a lifetime does a war so brutal erupt. A war that becomes an official genocide, causes millions to run from their homes, compels the slaughtering of thousands in the most horrific of ways, and inspires terrorist attacks to transpire across the world.

That is the chilling legacy of the ISIS onslaught, and Only Cry for the Living takes a profoundly personal, unprecedented dive into one of the most brutal terrorist organizations in the world.

Journalist Hollie S. McKay offers a raw, on-the-ground journey chronicling the rise of ISIS in Iraq - exposing the group’s vast impact and how and why it sought to wage terror on civilians in a desperate attempt to create an antiquated “caliphate”.
©2020 Di Angelo Publications (P)2021 Di Angelo Publications
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  • Categories: History
Middle East Wars & Conflicts
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I learned so much

I learned so much that just wasn’t common knowledge or reported by the western media. I heard Holly on The Jocko Podcast and am so glad I did. Thank you for writing such a great book.

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appreciate the west

great book with some heartbreaking realities. war sucks and it seems unfortunately the middle East will always be in war. it was nice to get so many stories over so many years. Hollie did some amazing things and i thank her for getting these stories out. my only complaint is someone else should have read it. the stories were somber and she read it as so which I guess is fine but i feel could have been read much better.

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