A terrifying tale of life in the new Caliphate

Memoir; The Girl Who Beat Isis: My Story; By Farida Khalaf with Andrea C Hoffmann; Square Peg, €17.25

Joseph Stalin famously said that the death of one person is a tragedy, the death of millions just a statistic. This starkly horrifying memoir by a young Iraqi woman proves his point.

The Girl Who Beat Isis puts a human face on the victims of Islamic jihadism, people whose individual stories often get lost as ...