The Morning They Came For Us Dispatches from Syria [Paperback]

Heartbreaking&[A] haunting reminder of what the Syrian revolution, ultimately, is about&Amid our obsession with ISIS, these tales are worth remembering.Necessary, difficult and elating&[C]lear-eyed and engaged in the best senseengaged in the human realm rather than the abstractly political.It is crucial to reveal the human stories behind the newsand&Janine di Giovanni does this with heartbreaking eloquence.A must read filled with bitter realities.Ms. di Giovanni writes here with urgency and anguishdetermined to testify to what she has witnessed because she wants people never to forget.&Her testimony is contained here in this searing and necessary book.What life is like for ordinary Syrians who have stayed behind is the subject of Janine di Giovannis heartbreaking book&[U]nsensational but unsparing&[I]t is individual stories, rather than victims counted in the millions, that reveal the terrible cost of leaving dictators in place for the sake of stability.?Di Giovanni writes vividly and we see with her how Damascene supporters of Assad drift away as the brutality of his rule became impossible to deny&Di Giovanni explains to us how horrible it all really is.Named one of the Best Books of the Year by