Andrew North has a deep empathy and understanding for Afghanistan and has seen sides of it - both good and horrifying - that very few international observers have encountered. - Rory Stewart By weaving personal stories into a modern hi...Loe edasi...
This volume provides a critical analysis of power and authority in Afghanistan, and how the conception and practice of these have shifted both historically and over the past twenty years. Contributors examine the deep colonial roots of ethnography,...Loe edasi...
An “essential” (Kevin Maurer, #1 New York Times bestselling author) memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming of age in a war that is lost.When Ian Fritz joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn’t...Loe edasi...
Beautifully researched and deeply moving - John Simpson, The Guardian First-class...exhaustively researched and sensitively written - The Times The extraordinary true story of the Afghans who risked th...Loe edasi...
An intimate history of the Afghan war—and the young Afghans whose dreams it enabled and dashed. No country was more deeply affected by 9/11 than Afghanistan: an entire generation grew up amid the upheaval that began that day. Young...Loe edasi...
In early 2022 ,veteran journalist Andrew North was kidnapped by the Taliban. By the time he found himself imprisoned in a jail cell, he had been reporting from Afghanistan for two decades, coming to know hundreds of Afghans along the way. This book b...Loe edasi...
A gripping memoir by a former NZSAS commander on serving in Afghanistan over four deployments and operating at the edge of his limits In 2011, following the Taliban siege on Kabuls Intercontinental Hotel, an SAS soldie...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jul-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781250286116)
The story of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis, who became an international hero for his courage and selflessness. Ever since he was a young boy growing up on the streets of Staten Island, New York, Michael Ollis wanted to be a soldier. Inspired by...Loe edasi...
This book is dedicated to main events of the war between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR; colloquially ‘Soviet Union’) and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (until November 1987, and then the Republic of Afghanistan), which began i...Loe edasi...
The inspiring memoir of the warrior for women whos defied the Taliban at every turn - doctor, public official, founder of schools and hospitals, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee LONGLISTED FOR 2024 MOORE PRIZE I have...Loe edasi...
Thousands of miles away from where her son was deployed, a powerful premonition is devastatingly confirmed by a knock on the door from two faceless strangers bearing the news that her son had stepped on an improvised explosive device in the poppy fie...Loe edasi...
Boots-on-the-ground memoir of fighting in the bloody Arghandab River Valley with 2/508th PIR, 82nd Airborne. First-hand account from a lower enlisted perspective within Bravo Company, 2-508 PIR, 82nd Airborne, during Operation Enduring Freedo...Loe edasi...
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller, now in paperback! Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard reveal the startling, dramatic story of the global war against terrorists.As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon...Loe edasi...
