James Verini arrived in Iraq in the summer of 2016 to write about life in the Islamic State.
We see unspeakable violence, improbable human.
He stayed to cover the jihadis\' last great stand, the Battle of Mosul, not knowing it would go on for nearly a year, nor that it would become, in the words of the Pentagon, "the most significant urban combat since WWII." They Will Have to Die Now takes the reader into the heart of the conflict against the most lethal insurgency of our time.
James Verini arrived in Iraq in the summer of 2016 to write about life in the Islamic State