The Kurds : My Friends in the North.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cookson, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kurds--History.

Kurds.

Kurdish question.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (154 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Kurds

Place of Publication:

London : Conrad Press, The, 2021.

Summary:

A story of broken dreams, bloodshed and betrayal_x000D_'The Kurd requires a beating one day and a sugar plum the next.' British Government official 1921 _x000D__x000D_'Saddam throws a little gas, everyone goes crazy, "oh, he's using gas!''' former President Donald Trump 2019 _x000D__x000D_Delving into history and mixing eye-witness accounts with compelling anecdotes from his journalistic career, John Cookson examines the Kurds' eternal quest for independence. He tells of his encounters with Kurdish guerillas in their mountain hideouts and of his travels with Kurdish smugglers. He documents survivors' stories from Saddam Hussein's genocidal campaign and reveals for the first time how Iraqi Kurdistan was saved from being overrun by murderous jihadis in the summer of 2014. _x000D_ He also digs through secret archives to discover why Sir Winston Churchill and Middle East titans like T. E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell made a fateful decision to leave the Kurds landlocked and doomed to an eternity of conflict.

Contents:

Intro

Foreword

1. Magic carpet ride

2. Wounded guerrilla on board

3. Welcome back Mr John.

4. Downtown

5. Who are the Kurds?

6. Hoshayar

7. Iskan Street

8. Christians in peril

9. 'Please help me!'

10. Brown envelope anyone?

11. Chalabi the Cheshire Cat

12. Jalal Talabani

13. A matter of 'honour'?

14. Shayan

15. Those who die first

16. Dara

17. The long march

18. 'The Kurd requires a beating.'

19. The Cairo Conference

20. Gertrude Bell

21. The Kurdish question

22. The King of Kurdistan

23. The Cairo legacy

24. Driving with Mustafa

25. Remembering Anfal

26. Halabja

27. Chemical Ali

28. Hypocrisy

29. Iran accused

30. Inside the clan

31. The King's tomb

32. Bring me the manager

33. Smugglers' paradise

34. Komola and Iran's rebellious Kurds

35. Khalkhali: the hanging judge

36. Four empty graves

37. Mahabad

38. By the rivers of Babylon

39. Betrayal

40. The PKK

41. The millennials

42. They reap what they sow

43. Saving the economy

44. Not in the news

45. Final thoughts.

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ISBN:

9781839782800

1839782803

OCLC:

1259592665