From the first innocent demonstrations for democracy, through the beginnings of the Free Syrian Army, to the arrival of ISIS, this book offers remarkable snapshots of soldiers, children, ordinary men and women simply trying to stay alive.

A powerful insight into the effects of civil war on the Syrian people, by an award-winning Syrian journalist who was forced to flee after falling foul of the Assad regime, before returning to her homeland by squeezing through a hole in the fence on the Turkish border.