Desert Sniper: How One Ordinary Brit Went to War Against ISIS

What makes an ordinary but highly educated Englishman, with no previous military training, decide to travel and fight in one of the most brutal conflicts on the planet?Desert Sniper is an extraordinary, true account of one mans journey from wellmeaning volunteer to battlescarred combat sniper, placing himself daily in the line of fire to fight one of the greatest evils of this new century.Ed Nash has travelled across the globe, and is working with refugees in Burma, when he first becomes aware of the terrible atrocities being committed under ISISs newly established Caliphate, covering vast tracts of Iraq and Syria. In June 2015, he chooses to undertake the hazardous journey, via Northern Iraq, to Syria, to join illequipped and poorly trained but battlehardened Kurdish forces as they attempt to halt Daeshs relentless advance.Nash is an articulate, insightful and refreshingly honest companion as he unpacks the shifting complexities of the political and military situation in which he finds himself. As one of a motley band of foreign volunteer fighters veterans of other conflicts, adventurers and misfits, from many different countries we follow him through his rudimentary training and early combat operations as he and his companions slowly gain the trust and respect of their Kurdish colleagues.Nash shows us the realities of the war on the ground in Syria in fascinating detail; the privations of the ordinary Kurdish soldiers, the terrible price paid by civilians caught in the crossfire, the everpresent danger of lethal suicide bombers and occasional moments of striking beauty in amongst the carnage.A modern classic in the making, Desert Sniper will prove to be one of the most unforgettable accounts to emerge from the war against ISIS.