This fearless work of first-hand reporting weaves together a tapestry of rebels and exiles, radical Islamists and their victims, to bring to life the deadliest conflict of the century thus far - the Syrian War. These disparate lives intersect in incredible ways, forming an unforgettable portrait of a shattered country that now only exists as a unified state on maps and in memories. From the first rumblings of dissent in 2011, No Turning Back shows the unravelling of a nation: peaceful protests in Damascus collapsing into violence, families on both sides shattered by nighttime shellings, and religious conviction sharpened by rage to a radical point. Abouzeid shows Syrians finding new way to live and resist even as the cruelty of President Bashar al-Assad's dictatorial regime - and the rising threat of Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State - tears their homeland apart.