The Islamic State - Strategists of Black Power and Terror

Following its brutal campaign of conquest in 2014, the "Islamic State" now controls more than five million people and an area the size of Great Britain. In his book, Spiegel correspondent Christoph Reuter presents the precise planning that led to the rise of the jihadists and reveals the roots of terror in a disintegrating Iraq, a civil war in Syria and the ramifications of conflicts throughout the region, which terror strategists have effectively turned to their own advantage. IS, the "Islamic State", is much more than the world's most dangerous terrorist organization. The IS power, which plans and executes its military moves with unprecedented precision, makes and breaks alliances without scruples, and supports all this with flawless propaganda from its point of view. The often-stated blind faith of the jihadists is only one of the tools that IS uses to increase its power.