Patrick Cockburn, The Jihadis Return: the Rise of ISIS and the new Sunni Uprising AND Loretta Napoleoni, The Islamist Phoenix: the Islamic State and the Redrawing of the Middle East.

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Patrick Cockburn, The Jihadis Return: the Rise of ISIS and the new Sunni Uprising. New York and London: O/R Books 2014.

144 pp,, US$ 15.00 / £ 9.00 [Paperback]; ISBN 978-1-939293-95-6.

Loretta Napoleoni, The Islamist Phoenix: the Islamic State and the Redrawing of the Middle East. New York and Oakland: Seven Stories Press 2014.

136 pp., US$ 11.95 [Paperback]; ISBN 978-1-60980-628-6. 

Reviewed by Teun van Dongen