Days of Love and Rage

'A sweeping tour-de-force of investigative journalism' - Time magazine 'Epic ... the definitive text of the war' - New York Times 'As a many-layered portrait of revolution it is a triumph... never less than compelling' - The Spectator In 2011, in a city in northern Syria, a small group of men and women began a movement that overthrew a brutal dictatorship. For the next eighteen months, many of the citizens of Manbij carried out one of the most remarkable experiments in democracy in modern times. Days of Love and Rage details the powerfully intimate narratives of the men and women who led this struggle, and who experienced the highs of camaraderie and the lows of betrayal. Among them: a pair of best friends torn apart by political polarization, a mother who stands up to male dominance, and a worker who risks everything for the dream of equality. Anand Gopal immerses you in the world of a single city in the throes of revolution, and lays bare the danger that inequality poses to democracy. But this book transcends the particulars of one terrible conflict to tell the broader story of rising authoritarianism in our times. Days of Love and Rage has the force, sweep and artistry of a great novel, and is ultimately a story of our enduring human need for dignity and hope.

Anand Gopal is a journalist and author of No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and winner of the Ridenhour Prize for Journalism. His coverage of Iraq has won the George Polk Award, the Overseas Press Club Award, and the National Magazine Award. He received his PhD from Columbia University and is an assistant research professor at the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict and the Center on the Future of War at Arizona State University.

Part I: The Flood
1. 1999
2. 2000 - 2005
3. 2009
Part II: The Conquered City
4. 2011: The First Protests
5. 2012: Repression
6. 2012: The Revolution Armed
7. 2012: The Liberation of Manbij
Part III: The Republic of Manbij
8. 2013: The Democratic Experiment
9. 2013: The Bread Wars
10. 2014: The Breakdown
Part IV: The State
11. 1990 - 2014: The Rise of ISIS
12. 2013 - 2014: How ISIS Captures Manbij
13. 2015: The Resistance
14. 2015: Defeat
Part V: The Annihilation
15. 2015: The American War
16. 2016 - 2017: Endgame
16. 2016 - 2017: The Fall of Manbij
Conclusion