To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban - Jon Lee Anderson

Descriere & specificații

From one of the greatest foreign correspondents of our time, whose essential and profound on-the-ground reporting from Afghanistan for The New Yorker from before 9/11 to the return of the Taliban to power in 2021 has definitively shaped our understanding of the country and its fate, comes the complete accounting of that era, combining previously published dispatches and new reporting into a narrative of great impact and lasting value. nJon Lee Anderson first reported from Afghanistan in the late 1980s, covering the US-backed mujahedin's insurrection against the Soviet-backed regime in Kabul. Within days of the 9/11 attacks, he was back on the ground as an early eyewitness to the new war launched by the US against the Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies. His reportage from the first year of the war won a number of awards, and was published in book form as The Lion's Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan. At the time, the American military had prevailed on the battlefield, and the newfound peace seemed to offer a precious space for Afghan society to restore itself and to forge a democratic future. But all was not well: Osama bin Laden was still in hiding, the Taliban were stealthily reorganizing for a comeback, and the United States was about to make the epochal blunder of turning its attention to Iraq. n nTo Lose a War collects all of Anderson's writing from Afghanistan over a near quarter-century span. Containing the stories from The Lion's Grave and all of those he published sinc

Produse similare

William H. McneillBerkshire Encyclopedia of World History: Second Edition Vol.6 - William H. McNeill, Jerry H. Bentley, David Christian, Ralph C. Croizier, J.R. McNeill, Heidi Roupp, Judith P. Zinsser

1.566,72 lei1.958,40 lei-20%

Mitch AlbomTuesdays With Morrie

63,30 lei79,13 lei-20%

Aiden ThomsonStained Glass

57,54 lei71,93 lei-20%

Mary BeardPompeii

69,06 lei86,33 lei-20%

Robert LeckieHelmet for my Pillow

86,34 lei107,93 lei-20%

Christopher R. BrowningOrdinary Men - Christopher R Browning

74,82 lei93,53 lei-20%

Stacy SchiffWitches

74,82 lei93,53 lei-20%

Ben MacintyreSAS

57,54 lei71,93 lei-20%

Oliver StoneUntold History of the United States

144,00 lei180,00 lei-20%

Alison WeirQueens of the Conquest

86,34 lei107,93 lei-20%

Christopher HibbertRome - Christopher Hibbert

126,72 lei158,40 lei-20%

Adam ToozeDeluge - Adam Tooze

109,38 lei136,73 lei-20%