Brothers of the Gun - A Memoir of the Syrian War Pevná vazba
A bracingly immediate memoir of the Syrian civil war from its inception to the present, by a young man coming of age during the Syrian war, and whose friends traveled divergent paths through the…
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A bracingly immediate memoir of the Syrian civil war from its inception to the present, by a young man coming of age during the Syrian war, and whose friends traveled divergent paths through the carnage. An intimate lens into the century's bloodiest conflict, and a profound mediation on kinship, home, and freedom. Illustrated with over 80 ink drawings by Molly Crabapple.In 2011, Marwan Hisham and his two friends--fellow working-class college students--Nael and Tareq, joined the first protests of the Arab Spring in Syria, in response to a recent massacre. Arm-in-arm they marched, poured Coke into each other's eyes to blunt the effects of tear gas, ran from the security forces, and cursed the country's president, Bashar al-Assad. It was ecstasy. A long-bottled revolution was finally erupting, and freedom from a brutal dictator seemed, at last, imminent. Five years