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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carlotta Gall has reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan for almost the entire duration of the American invasion and occupation, beginning shortly after 9/11. She knows just how much this war has cost the Afghan people, and how much damage can be traced to Pakistan and its duplicitous government and intelligence forces. Now that American troops are withdrawing, it is time to tell the full history of how we have been fighting the wrong enemy, in the...
4) Afghanistan
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Provides readers with opposing viewpoints on the issue of postwar reconstruction in Afghanistan.
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This is the definitive account of the Biden administration's most disgraceful hour -- and the chaos it unleashed in the world. The United States' hasty retreat from Afghanistan in 2021 was nothing short of a horror show. Women and children were trampled to death outside the gates of the Kabul airfield. Desperate Afghans clung to the landing gear of departing planes. American civilians and Afghan interpreters were abandoned to the mercy of the Taliban....
Author
Series
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Long before the calamities of our own age, the United States involved itself deeply in Afghanistan. Harnessing extensive research in U.S. and foreign archives, the historian Rob Rakove traces the remarkable, ultimately tragic story of U.S. engagement in Afghanistan up to the 1979 Soviet invasion. Committed to the preservation of Afghan independence, the United States played an unwitting, destabilizing role in the country, contributing to Afghanistan's...
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