Sinjar : 14 days that saved the Yazidis from Islamic State / Susan Shand.
| Author/creator | Shand, Susan author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Guilford, Connecticut : LP, [2018] |
| Description | xiii, 240 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Cries for help -- Before the invasion -- Invasion : Sunday August 3 -- First reactions : Monday August 4 -- Appeals : Tuesday August 5 -- The red line : Wednesday August 6, Thursday August 7 -- America responds : Friday August 8, Saturday August 9 -- The prime minister : Sunday August 10, Monday August 11, Tuesday August 12 -- The mountain is empty : Wednesday August 13, Thursday August 14 -- Kocho : Friday Aug. 15. |
| Abstract | How were new Yazidi immigrants working from a Super 8 motel in Maryland able to help defeat the warriors of Islamic State on the battlefield? This is the extraordinary tale of how a few American-Yazidis in Washington, DC, mobilized a small, forgotten office in the American government to intervene militarily in Iraq to avert a devastating humanitarian crisis. While Islamic State massacred many thousands of Yazidi men and sold thousands more Yazidi women into slavery, the U.S. intervention saved the lives of 50,000 Yazidis. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Shand, Susan, author. Sinjar Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, 2018 9781493033669 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction. |
| LCCN | 2018037781 |
| ISBN | 9781493033652 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1493033654 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |