A review by bexlrose
The Raqqa Diaries: Escape from Islamic State by Samer

5.0

A first hand account of the horrors happening in Syria at the hands of Daesh and an all-controlling regime. I am so shocked. I thought I was well-informed but I was not. The truth of living in this hell is so much more Owellian than I ever expected. It's not just a physical war-zone, it's a psychological one too. It is almost akin to people being beheaded for thought-crimes.

Please read this book, it's the most important book you'll read this year. An upsetting, harrowing and gut-wrenching 5 stars, with my thanks to Samer for risking everything to write it.