Reddit reviews My Jihad: The True Story of an American Mujahid's Amazing Journey from Usama Bin Laden's Training Camps to Counterterrorism with the FBI and CIA

Do you remember the link to the article? That sounds fascinating. In the book My Jihad the author describes how Russians would achieve Olympian levels of intoxication and then lock themselves in bunkers, firing off huge artillery shells at Chechnyan cities. I remember being horrified and wholly intrigued at the absurdity at the same time - maybe I need to stop re-reading Catch-22 so much...

I've enjoyed the following, not being from that part of the world, culture or religion you'd have to take my insight with a grain of salt. There doesn't seem to be that much information about that part of the world, one of the reasons I find it so fascinating. It's fairly invisible. There is typically one viewpoint from this media, red team or blue team, nothing seems to be that unbiased. I found "The Oath" to be the most informative and interesting.

BOOKS-

• The Oath https://www.amazon.com/Oath-Surgeon-Under-Fire/dp/0802714048
  
  
• Inferno in Chechyna https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1611687373/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• Young Stalin https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400096138/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• The Soviet Mafia
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312071353/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• My Jihad
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1585745650/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• The Man without a Face
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594486514/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• Blowing Up Russia
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594032017/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• The World's Most Dangerous Places
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060011602/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• The Dirty War
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1860468977/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• Merchant Of Death
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470048662/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• Urban Guerrilla Warfare
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813124379/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
• ANYTHING by Misha Glenny (althought about Former Yugoslavia Mainly)
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400044111/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140257713/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140172866/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  DOCS-
  
  
• Letter To Anna
  
• Chechnya The Dirty War
  
• cena prawdy "truth"
  
• immortal fortress
  
• From Beirut to Bosnia (good as well)
  
• Children of Beslan
  
• Terror in Moscow
  
• Nedoverie "Disbelief"