The Tragedy of Afghanistan
Author | : Raja Anwar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Raja Anwar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bo Huldt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2019-09-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000357228 |
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 stunned the world and ushered in a new period of superpower confrontation. Research into Afghan society was severely curtailed, and the ability to research the Afghan resistance was non-existent. This book, first published in 1988, was the result of a Swedish seminar that focused on the results of the war on the people and culture of Afghanistan.
Author | : Matt Farwell |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2020-03-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0735221065 |
The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in Afghanistan ”An unsettling and riveting book filled with the mysteries of human nature.” —Kirkus Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl left his platoon's base in eastern Afghanistan in the early hours of June 30, 2009. Since that day, easy answers to the many questions surrounding his case—why did he leave his post? What kinds of efforts were made to recover him from the Taliban? And why, facing a court martial, did he plead guilty to the serious charges against him?—have proved elusive. Taut in its pacing but sweeping in its scope, American Cipher is the riveting and deeply sourced account of the nearly decade-old Bergdahl quagmire—which, as journalists Matt Farwell and Michael Ames persuasively argue, is as illuminating an episode as we have as we seek the larger truths of how the United States lost its way in Afghanistan. The book tells the parallel stories of a young man's halting coming of age and a nation stalled in an unwinnable war, revealing the fallout that ensued when the two collided: a fumbling recovery effort that suppressed intelligence on Bergdahl's true location and bungled multiple opportunities to bring him back sooner; a homecoming that served to deepen the nation's already-vast political fissure; a trial that cast judgment on not only the defendant, but most everyone involved. The book's beating heart is Bergdahl himself—an idealistic, misguided soldier onto whom a nation projected the political and emotional complications of service. Based on years of exclusive reporting drawing on dozens of sources throughout the military, government, and Bergdahl's family, friends, and fellow soldiers, American Cipher is at once a meticulous investigation of government dysfunction and political posturing, a blistering commentary on America's presence in Afghanistan, and a heartbreaking story of a naïve young man who thought he could fix the world and wound up the tool of forces far beyond his understanding.
Author | : Ahmed Rashid |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780670019700 |
Examines how the failure of the nation building policies of the United States have contributed to increased instability in both Pakistan and Afghanistan, a result which represents the greatest threat to peace and security in the global community.
Author | : Aaron B. O'Connell |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2017-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022626579X |
American and Afghan veterans contribute to this anthology of critical perspectives—“a vital contribution toward understanding the Afghanistan War” (Library Journal). When America went to war with Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11, it did so with the lofty goals of dismantling al Qaeda, removing the Taliban from power, remaking the country into a democracy. But as the mission came unmoored from reality, the United States wasted billions of dollars, and thousands of lives were lost. Our Latest Longest War is a chronicle of how, why, and in what ways the war in Afghanistan failed. Edited by prize-winning historian and Marine lieutenant colonel Aaron B. O’Connell, the essays collected here represent nine different perspectives on the war—all from veterans of the conflict, both American and Afghan. Together, they paint a picture of a war in which problems of culture, including an unbridgeable rural-urban divide, derailed nearly every field of endeavor. The authors also draw troubling parallels to the Vietnam War, arguing that ideological currents in American life explain why the US government has repeatedly used military force in pursuit of democratic nation-building. In Afghanistan, as in Vietnam, this created a dramatic mismatch of means and ends that neither money, technology, nor weapons could overcome.
Author | : Michael Ratner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780981989174 |
Author | : Shughla Karzai |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2021-03-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1664163530 |
The book will be divided into two major parts, each with a number of shorter chapters. Part I will tell the story of Shughla’s journey and how Sana Orphanage came into existence, in chronological order. Each chapter will tell about a particular step on the way, an incident or a milestone that was significant. Part II will tell the stories of some of the individual children at Sana. Some chapters will be extremely brief, while others will be longer. Not all of the children’s stories can be told, as there are over fifty children now at the orphanage; but a sampling of various stories will be included, to give the reader an idea of the kinds of things these children have been forced to deal with in their short lives.
Author | : Sadhan Mukherjee |
Publisher | : New Delhi : Sterling |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Afghanistan |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sayed Qassem Reshtia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Afghanistan |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Afghanistan |
ISBN | : |