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Spoils by Reet, Brian Van

ISBN: 9781910702970 PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape Ltd FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 224 PUBLICATION DATE: 1.05.2017 DIMENSIONS: 23.4 x 15.3 x 1.9 centimetres

DESCRIPTION: Spoils is a harrowing and incredibly powerful debut. I read this with awe.' Kate AtkinsonIt is the spring of 2003 and coalition forces are advancing on Iraq. Images of a giant statue of Saddam Hussein crashing to the ground in Baghdad are being beamed to news channels around the world. Nineteenyearold Specialist Cassandra Wigheard, on her first deployment since joining the US army two years earlier, is primed for war.For Abu alHool, a jihadist since the days of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, war is wearing thin. Two decades of fighting and the new wave of superradicalised fighters joining the ranks in the wake of the September 11 attacks have left him questioning his commitment to the struggle.When Cassandra is taken prisoner by alHool's mujahideen brotherhood, both fighters will find their loyalties tested to the very limits.This fastpaced, hardhitting account of eight weeks in the lives of a soldier and her captor forces us to reconsider the simplistic narratives of war spun by those in power. With its privileged insight into the reality of armed combat, Spoils shines a light on the uncertainty, fear and idealism that characterised the early days of one of the most important conflicts of our time.

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