To lose a war : the fall and rise of the Taliban / Jon Lee Anderson.
From one of the greatest foreign correspondents of our time, whose on-the-ground reporting from Afghanistan has shaped our understanding of the country and its fate, comes the complete accounting of the era from before 9/11 to the return of the Taliban to power in 2021.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593493090
- ISBN: 0593493095
- Physical Description: xxiv, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: Revised and updated edition.
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2025.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "First published in the United States of America as The lion's graves, by Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, Inc., in 2002."--Title page verso.Includes index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Preface -- A note on title changes -- A lion's death -- The warlord -- In the court of the pretender -- The surrender -- City of dreams -- Holy and other warriors -- Mullah Omar's favorite songs -- The assassins -- The man in the palace -- The Americans' opium war -- Day of the superwadi -- Force and futility -- Annals of assassination -- An American way of killing (March 11, 2012) -- The ballad of Mullah Omar (July 30, 2015) -- The latest fall of Kunduz (October 6, 2015) -- The return of the Taliban (August 13, 2021) -- The end of the American empire? (September 1, 2021) -- After the fall -- Afterword.
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- Subject:
- Taliban.
Afghan War, 2001-2021.
Afghanistan > History > 2001-2021.
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