All Lara's Wars

The true story of one woman's struggle to save her sons from radicalization by Chechen partisans, as told by a seasoned war reporter.

In All Lara's Wars, the great events of the last half-century--the realignment of Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union, and the rise in the Middle East of ISIS and its quest for a new Caliphate--converge in this account of a Chechen-Georgian family whose two sons become radicalized, and how their mother--Lara--travels to Syria by bus and at great ...