{"product_id":"the-kurds-my-friends-in-the-north-9781913567798","title":"The Kurds: my friends in the north","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The Kurd requires a beating one day and a sugar plum the next.’ British Government official 1921   ‘Saddam throws a little gas, everyone goes crazy, “oh, he’s using gas!’’’ former President Donald Trump 2019   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.        He also digs through secret archives to discover why Sir Winston Churchill and Middle East titans like T. E. Lawrence and Gertude Bell made a fateful decision to leave the Kurds landlocked and doomed to an eternity of conflict.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword\t9 1. Magic carpet ride\t21 2. Wounded guerrilla on board\t28 3. Welcome back Mr John.\t32 4. Downtown\t38 5. Who are the Kurds?\t42 6. Hoshayar\t46 7. Iskan Street\t53 8. Christians in peril\t60 9. ‘Please help me!’\t71 10. Brown envelope anyone?\t78 11. Chalabi the Cheshire Cat\t87 12. Jalal Talabani\t94 13. A matter of ‘honour’?\t97 14. Shayan\t99 15. Those who die first\t103 16. Dara\t110 17. The long march\t114 18. ‘The Kurd requires a beating.’\t122 19. The Cairo Conference\t125 20. Gertrude Bell\t128 21. The Kurdish question\t132 22. The King of Kurdistan\t135 23. The Cairo legacy\t141 24. Driving with Mustafa\t146 25. Remembering Anfal\t153 26. Halabja\t157 27. Chemical Ali\t163 28. Hypocrisy\t165 29. Iran accused\t167 30. Inside the clan\t170 31. The King’s tomb\t177 32. Bring me the manager\t182 33. Smugglers’ paradise\t188 34. Komola and Iran’s rebellious Kurds\t199 35. Khalkhali: the hanging judge\t206 36. Four empty graves\t208 37. Mahabad\t214 38. By the rivers of Babylon\t221 39. Betrayal\t229 40. The PKK\t233 41. The millennials\t236 42. They reap what they sow\t240 43. Saving the economy\t243 44. Not in the news\t245 45. Final thoughts\t250","brand":"The Conrad Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48742741639511,"sku":"9781913567798","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781913567798.jpg?v=1720062636","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-kurds-my-friends-in-the-north-9781913567798","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}