THE KILLING GAME: MARTYRDOM, MURDER, AND THE LURE OF ISIS
Book ID/图书代码： 06002015B84792
English Summary/英文概要： On January 21, 2015, a pro-ISIS Twitter account reported that John Maguire, a 23-year-old university drop-out from the Ottawa Valley town of Kemptville, had been killed fighting Kurds in the Syrian city of Kobani. A few weeks before, Maguire had starred in a YouTube video threatening Canada for bombing ISIS forces in Iraq.
Just a week later, Dillon Hillier, a 26-year-old former Canadian army soldier and son of a Conservative politician, returned to his parents’ home near Ottawa after fighting in the Middle East. He had joined the Kurdish soldiers fighting ISIS and probably fought in the battle where Maguire had joined.
Why would two men who had so much in common (and with no Muslim/Arab heritage) decide to fight on opposing sides in a vicious conflict that really had little to do with them and with Canada? How did they decide which side to join?
This book is an examination of the lives of these two men, framed by the war that lured them from comfortable, ordinary lives in a quiet corner of Ontario. Why were both of these men radicalized—one by the most extreme form of Islam, the other by a desire to fight it? Why did they travel to the most dangerous part of the world to fight against each other as members of foreign armies in an ugly little war that, by the time this book comes out, may be a major war that draws in every nation and faction in the region, as well as parts of Africa?
The Killing Game delves into the lives of these two young men as a framing device to examine what draws young men and women to join violent social/political movements. It looks at the psychology of young men and women today and the propaganda used by all sides in the Middle East conflicts, as well as the security laws and the political initiatives that have been designed to stop Canadians from being radicalized. From the irresistible lure of Marxist-Leninism of the 1930s through the ’60s and ’70s, and including the appeal of Nazism to young Germans in the 1930s, this book also investigates what it is that draws young people to join and fight for causes as different as the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s and the Red Brigades of the 1970s, but with an emphasis on the attraction of ISIS and radical Islam in our own time.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 2015年1月21日，一个专业的ISIS推特账户报道，约翰马奎尔，23岁渥太华谷镇肯普特维尔大学的一名辍学学生，在科巴尼叙利亚镇对抗库尔德人时被杀。几周前，马奎尔在YouTube上发布了威胁加拿大要轰炸在伊拉克的ISIS部队的视频。
仅一周后，狄龙•希利尔，26岁的前加拿大陆军士兵，保守派政治家的儿子，在中东战争后回到了他渥太华附近的父母家。他加入了抵抗ISIS的库尔德部队，可能参与了那场马奎尔也参与的战争。
这两个有那么多相似之处的人（也没有穆斯林/阿拉伯血统）为什么会决定在这个邪恶的冲突中站在对立的立场进行战斗，而且几乎和他们还有加拿大没什么关系。他们是怎么决定加入哪一方的？
这本书是对这两个人生活的一个检验，他们放弃安大略湖边安静小镇舒适，普通的事生活，加入战争。为什么这个人都会变得激进—一个成了伊斯兰的激进分子，另一个却渴望对抗它？为什么他们要去世界上最危险的地方，作为这场邪恶小战争中的外国军队的成员相互战斗，在这本书出版的时候，可能正值这个区域每个国家和地区的派系，以及部分非洲地区之间的一场主要的战争？
《杀戮游戏》研究了这两个年轻人的生活，将他们的生活作为一个框架，检视了是什么将年轻的男性和女性吸引过来加入这暴力的社会/政治运动。它关注了当今年轻男女的心理，和中东冲突各方使用的宣传，以及安全法，和为阻止加拿大人被激进化的政治主动举措。20世纪30年代到60年代和70年代，受到不可抗拒的马列主义的诱惑，包括在20世纪30年代德国纳粹主义对年轻人的吸引力。这本书还探讨了是什么吸引了年轻人加入战斗，如上世纪30年代的西班牙内战和70年代的红色旅，但主要侧重在我们自己这个时代的ISIS和对伊斯兰激进分子的吸引（YYW）。
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About the Author/作者介绍： 马克•波利迅速成为全国知名专家，宣传和审查书籍的作者。他也是位屡获殊荣的作家，是位受人尊敬的军事历史学家，有着加强观点的学术资格。他是历史学博士，曾是加拿大战争博物馆的宣传与报道顾问，写了两本很受欢迎的关于信息控制的书籍：《战争迷雾：加拿大媒体在二战中的审查制度》和《杀死信使：蒂芬哈珀对你有权知道的攻击》。
国家杂志奖获奖记者，他自1994年开始担任加拿大新闻记者席的成员。波利在国防部门的公共事务部门做关于宣传和审查的讲座，定期讲授媒体历史，在卡尔顿大学教授宣传与审核学和在渥太华大学教授加拿大研究学。他目前在渥太华大学攻读法律学位。
MARK BOURRIE is quickly emerging as the country’s leading expert and author on propaganda and censorship. He is also an award-winning writer and a respected military historian with academic qualifications that give heft to his views. He holds a PhD in History, has been a consultant to the Canadian War Museum on propaganda and war coverage, and has written two very well received books on information control: The Fog of War: Censorship of Canada’s Media in World War Two and Kill the Messengers: Stephen Harper’s Assault on Your Right to Know.
A National Magazine Award-winning journalist, he has been a member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery since 1994. Bourrie lectures on propaganda and censorship at the Department of National Defence School of Public Affairs and periodically teaches courses on media history, censorship and propaganda at Carleton University and Canadian Studies at the University of Ottawa. He is also pursuing a law degree at the University of Ottawa.
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