Farewell Kabul - From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World

Informationen zum Autor Christina Lamb is US editor for the Sunday Times. In 2009 she was awarded the prestigious Prix Bayeux Calvados for her reporting from Afghanistan. She won the Foreign Press Association Award for Story of the Year in 2007, and was also named Foreign Correspondent of the Year. She is the author of the best-selling ‘The Africa House’, ‘The Sewing Circles of Herat’, and ‘I Am Malala’, co-authored with Malala Yousafzai. Klappentext From the award-winning co-author of I Am Malala, this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did the West's war in Afghanistan and across the Middle East go so wrong? Farewell Kabul tells how the West turned success into defeat in the longest war fought by the United States in its history and by Britain since the Hundred Years War. It is the story of well-intentioned men and women going into a place they did not understand at all. And how, what had once been the right thing to do had become a conflict that everyone wanted to exit. It has been a fiasco which has left Afghanistan still one of the poorest and most dangerous nations on earth. The leading journalist on the region with unparalleled access to all key decision makers, Christina Lamb is the best-selling author of 'The Africa House' and I Am Malala, co-authored with Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai. This revelatory and personal account is her final analysis of the realities of Afghanistan, told unlike anyone before. Zusammenfassung From the award-winning co-author of I Am Malala, this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did the West’s war in Afghanistan and across the Middle East go so wrong?

Product details

• Authors: Christina Lamb, Lamb Christina
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.03.2016
• EAN: 9780007256945
• ISBN: 978-0-00-725694-5
• No. of pages: 640
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 40 mm
• Series: William Collins
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, HISTORY / Middle East / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, Terrorism, armed struggle, c 2000 to c 2009, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Middle Eastern history, Military and defence strategy, Modern warfare, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Afghan War, Armed Conflict, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / Afghan War (2001-2021)