In August 2014, Farida, like any ordinary teenage girl, was enjoying the summertime holidays before her last year at school. But Farida lived in the mountains of north Iraq – and what occurred next was unimaginable. Her community was an ISIS target.

ISIS jihadists murdered the guys and boys, including her dad and sibling, before taking Farida and the other females prisoner. This is the story of what occurred to Farida after she was captured: the beatings, the rapes, the markets where ISIS sold about The Girl Who Beat ISIS: Farida’s Tale women like cattle, and Farida’s realisation the more resistant she became, the harder it had been on her behalf captors to continue their atrocities against her. So she struggled, she little bit, she kicked, she accused her captors of going against their religious beliefs, until, 1 day, the entranceway to her room was left unlocked. She had taken her chance and, with five more youthful young ladies in her charge, fled in to the Syrian desert.

Farida showed incredible courage when confronted with the unthinkable, and now with The Girl Who Defeat ISIS she bravely relives her tale to bear witness. Searing and instant, this is the initial memoir by a woman that shows first-hand what existence is similar to for innocents caught up in the maelstrom of day-to-day life with ISIS.