A Good Place on the Banks of the Euphrates - Stoddard II, Warren
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"War corrodes everyone." Following in the footsteps of the volunteers who fought with the Spanish International Brigades eighty years prior, Warren Stoddard II traveled on his own in 2018 from the United States to Syria, a country embroiled in a nearly decade-long civil war that had by then become the twenty-first century's bloodiest conflict. There, he joined up with volunteers from around the world in the international units of the YPG, the Kurdish militia leading the fight against ISIS. He and the other members of YPG International spent months training and waiting for action before…mehr

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"War corrodes everyone." Following in the footsteps of the volunteers who fought with the Spanish International Brigades eighty years prior, Warren Stoddard II traveled on his own in 2018 from the United States to Syria, a country embroiled in a nearly decade-long civil war that had by then become the twenty-first century's bloodiest conflict. There, he joined up with volunteers from around the world in the international units of the YPG, the Kurdish militia leading the fight against ISIS. He and the other members of YPG International spent months training and waiting for action before participating in the final campaign against ISIS forces in Deir ez-Zor, fighting through Hajin and Ash Sha'fah, where Stoddard was ultimately wounded in action. Stoddard's story, told here through interlaced works of short fiction, memoir, and journal entries, paints an intimate portrait of the lives of the internationalists fighting in Northeastern Syria during the final days of the YPG's war against the Islamic State: what they left behind, what they hoped to achieve, and what they were willing to sacrifice for the freedom of a people and a land that were not their own.
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Born in 1994 and raised in the Hill Country of Central Texas, Warren Stoddard II attended Texas State University in San Marcos and there fell in love with early-model Harley-Davidsons. Following his graduation from Texas State, he travelled to Syria to join the YPG, a Kurdish militia, and was later wounded in action liberating the city of Ash Sha'fah from ISIS control. He now lives in Birmingham, Alabama with his wife and dog. He is also the author of A Good Place on the Banks of the Euphrates: Stories From the War Against ISIS.