«Quite simply, the best Western journalist at work in Iraq today.»

Seymour Hersh

«Eminently readable...One of the region's most distinguished western observers...Soaked in blood, sectarian strife and fanaticism, mired in Great Power hypocrisy and betrayal, this may not be everyone's idea of feelgood lockdown literature but for anyone interested in the Middle East it is essential reading.»

Justin Marozzi, Sunday Times

«Cockburn makes a powerful denunciation of double standards in western media»

Irish Times

«A fine and courageous journalist, who has displayed a sustained commitment to laying bare the tribulations of the Middle East . This book confirms Cockburn's reputation as a reporter and analyst.»

Max Hastings, Sunday Times [for The Age of Jihad]

«This book is required reading for anyone who wants to try to understand the disaster. It should be compulsory reading for politicians, diplomats, defence chiefs and the academic think-tanks whose members make confident predictions, usually confounded by what follows.»

Allan Massie, Scotland on Sunday [for The Age of Jihad]

«It is a brilliant tour d'horizon of the new wars, a chronicle compiled from despatches, notes and diaries. No one could be better placed for this task and no one else could have produced such a lucid and comprehensive account.»

Robert Fox, Evening Standard [For The Age of Jihad]

«The greatest living foreign correspondent in English, a writer of understated integrity and compassion, with the necessary balance of indignation and detachment»

Richard Lloyd Parry, New York Times [for The Age of Jihad]

«An invaluable history of IS along with a powerful critique of Western policy in Iraq and Syria and an unsparing analysis of Shia politics in Baghdad.»

Hugh Roberts, London Review of Books [for The Rise of Islamic State]