No Return: The True Story of How Martyrs Are Made

by Mark Townsend

Overview

'An incredible story, powerfully and beautifully told.' - James O'Brien
Five teenage friends leave Brighton to wage jihad in Syria. All except one are killed. This is their untold story.
No Return is a unique insight into a hidden Britain, based on true events that so shocked intelligence experts they are now the Home Office's lead case study into youth radicalisation.
Drawing on a cache of leaked classified documents and unprecedented access to all the main players, award-winning investigative journalist Mark Townsend reveals the shocking truth behind what drew these young Britons to martyrdom in a foreign land. The end result is a fast-paced and powerfully gripping true crime account of radicalisation - and how it can be prevented.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783351831
Publisher:	Guardian Faber Publishing
Publication date:	03/31/2020
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	517 KB

About the Author

Mark Townsend is the home affairs editor of the Observer. Among twenty-five major journalism prizes and shortlistings, his work has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and he was named News Reporter of the Year at the 2018 Press Awards.
Observer. He has won numerous awards including Press Gazette Specialist Reporter of the Year and British Environmental Journalist of the Year. His reports from Afghanistan, which Point Man is based on, were judged runner-up in the features category of the 2007 Foreign Press Association (FPA) awards. The following year he was part of the Observer team that won an FPA award for their investigation into Iraqi honour-killings. He lives in London.