A news-making account of the war between David KoreshΓÇÖs Branch Davidians and the FBI,and how their standoff launched todayΓÇÖs militias In 1993David Koresh and a band of heavily armed evangelical Christians took on the might of the US government. A two-month siege of their compound in WacoTexasended in a firefight that killed seventy-sixincluding twenty-five children. America is still picking up the piecesand we still havenΓÇÖt heard the full story. Kevin Cookwho revealed the truth behind a mythicmisunderstood murder in his 2014 Kitty Genovesefinally provides the full story of what happened at Waco. He gives readers a taste of KoreshΓÇÖs deadly charisma and takes us behind the scenes at the Branch DavidiansΓÇÖ compoundwhere ΓÇ£the new ChristΓÇ¥ turned his followers into servants and sired seventeen children by a dozen ΓÇ£wives.ΓÇ¥ In vivid accounts packed with human dramaCook harnesses never-reported material to reconstruct the FBIΓÇÖs fifty-one-day siege of the Waco compound in minute-to-minute detail. He sheds new light on the Clinton administrationΓÇÖs approval of a lethal governmental assault in a newdefinitive account of the firefight that ended so many lives and triggered the rise of todayΓÇÖs militia movement. Waco drew the battle lines for American extremistsΓÇöin Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeighΓÇÖs wordsΓÇ£Waco started this war.ΓÇ¥ With help from sources as diverse as Branch Davidian survivors and the FBIΓÇÖs lead negotiator during the siegeCook draws a straight line from WacoΓÇÖs ashes to the January 62021riot at the US Capitol and insurrections yet to come. Unmissable reading for anyone interested in the truth of what happened in Texas three decades agoWaco Rising is chillingly relevant today. Here is the spark that ignited todayΓÇÖs antigovernment militias.