'If a bomb lands in a village and nobody tweets about it, did it actually happen?' 

A leading foreign correspondent looks at how social media has transformed the modern battlefield, and how wars are fought.

Modern warfare is a war of narratives, where bullets are fired both physically and virtually. Whether you are a president or a terrorist, if you don't understand how to deploy the power of social media effectively you may win the odd battle but you will lose a twenty-first-century war.

Here, journalist David Patrikarakos draws on unprecedented access to key players to provide a new narrative for modern warfare.

He travels thousands of miles across continents to meet a de-radicalized female member of ISIS recruited via Skype, a liberal Russian in Siberia who takes a job manufacturing "Ukrainian" news, and many others to explore the way social media has transformed the way we fight, win, and consume wars-and what this means for the world going forward.

Part of the Breaking the News exhibition range.

Find out more about the exhibition https://www.bl.uk/events/breaking-the-news

Shop the rest of the range https://shop.bl.uk/collections/breaking-the-news

Author: David Patrikarakos

Brand: Basic Books

Number of pages: 320 pages

Binding: Hardback