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Author:

Jeffrey, Shaker, author.

Title:

Shadow on the mountain : a Yazidi memoir of terror, resistance, and hope / Shaker Jeffrey and Katharine Holstein

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Da Capo Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

viii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Jeffrey, Shaker.
Yezidis--Biography.
Yezidis--Crimes against--Iraq.
IS (Organization)

Other Authors:

Holstein, Katharine, author.

Notes:

Includes index.

Summary:

Recounts the story of Shaker Jeffrey, a young Yazidi interpreter for the US military in Iraq, and what happened after ISIS sentenced the Yazidi people to extermination. The Yazidis fled to Mount Shingal, where they had no food and no water. Shaker went behind enemy lines, relaying their precise locations to CENTCOM in Washington and even infiltrating their ranks to rescue the taken; but he would come to risk everything in the search for his beloved. Soon, he established a cross-border, underground rescue network that would save the lives of thousands of civilians, all while feeding intelligence to the US military--and landing him at the top of ISIS's execution list.

ISBN:

0306922835
9780306922831

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1140072576

LCCN:

bl2020000115

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

OEPC877 -- Bedford Public Library (Bedford) — B Jef

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)