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Puk Damsgård’s The ISIS Hostage Examines the Horror of an Irregular War

Puk Damsgård chronicles the capture, confinement and eventual release of Danish photojournalist Daniel Rye.

via pastemagazine.com: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/05/puk-damsgards-the-isis-hostage.html

The ISIS Hostage: One Man’s True Story of Thirteen Months in Captivity is a case study in what might be called the New War Journalism. Puk Damsgård’s unadorned chronicle of Danish photojournalist Daniel Rye’s capture, confinement and eventual release delivers a lesson as astringent as medicine: in the modern era of irregular warfare, battlefields are no longer demarcated by flags or trenches but by ideology and memory

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