They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate Nature_Gift_Guide USA Today (4 out of

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They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate Nature_Gift_Guide USA Today (4 out ofA Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2019 "It's a small miracle that a writer as good as James Verini witnessed the battle of Mosul. It will take its place among the very best war writing of the past two decades." George Packer James Verini arrived in Iraq in the summer of 2016 to write about life in the Islamic State. He stayed to cover the jihadis' last great stand, the Battle of Mosul, not knowing it would go on for nearly a year. This "urgent, scalding,