They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate

"They Will Have to Die Now is the story of what happened after most Americans stopped paying attention to Iraq...It will take its place among the very best war writing of the past two decades." -George Packer, author of Our Man and The Assassins' Gate

James Verini arrived in Iraq in the summer of 2016 to write about life in the Islamic State. 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 w...