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Essential reading on havoc of ‘war on terror’
Andrew Murray reviews Blood Year by David Kilcullen and Chaos and Caliphate by Patrick Cockburn

• Blood Year, David Kilcullen (Hurst Publishers, £9.99)

• Chaos and Caliphate, Patrick Cockburn (OR Books, £18)

THIS is, as Patrick Cockburn notes, an “age of chaos and war” in the Middle East.

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