August In Kabul
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August In Kabul
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Author : Andrew Quilty
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-04-20
August In Kabul written by Andrew Quilty and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-20 with Political Science categories.
Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut book offers a remarkable record of this historic moment. As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. After a 20-year conflict with the United States, its Western allies and a proxy Afghan government, the Islamic militant group once aligned with al Qaeda was about to bury yet another foreign foe in the graveyard of empires. And for the US, world superpower, this was yet another foreign disaster. As cities and towns fell to the Taliban in rapid succession, Western troops and embassy staff scrambled to flee a country of which its government had lost control. August in Kabul is the story of how America's longest mission came to an abrupt and humiliating end, told through the eyes of Afghans whose lives have been turned upside down: a young woman who harbours dreams of a university education; a presidential staffer who works desperately to hold things together as the government collapses around him; a prisoner in the notorious Bagram Prison who suddenly finds himself free when prison guards abandon their post. Andrew Quilty was one of only a handful of Western journalists who stayed in Kabul as the city fell. This is his first-hand account of those dramatic final days.
August In Kabul
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language : en
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Release Date : 2022
August In Kabul written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Kabul
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Author : Jerry Dunleavy
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2023-08-15
Kabul written by Jerry Dunleavy and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-15 with Political Science categories.
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER This explosive book is the definitive account of the Biden administration's most disgraceful hour—and the chaos it unleashed in the world. America’s chaotic 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 fell from the landing gear of departing planes. Taliban fighters mercilessly whipped and humiliated U.S. civilians trying to access the few square miles still controlled by American forces. Countless Afghan interpreters were abandoned to the mercy of the Taliban after risking their lives alongside American troops for years. And thirteen U.S. service members—eleven of whom were still in preschool on 9/11—were murdered in an ISIS suicide bombing that could easily have been prevented. Still, the full story is worse than anyone imagined. Drawing from hundreds of hours of first-person interviews, investigative reporter Jerry Dunleavy and former Army Captain and Afghanistan veteran James Hasson provide an exclusive, no-holds-barred account of the disastrous events of August 2021. Kabul is packed with shocking and infuriating exclusive details about fatal politics and bureaucracy that contributed to the catastrophe. The authors also tell, for the first time, inspiring stories of the bravery and sacrifices exhibited by countless Americans on the ground. Kabul's original reporting includes eyewitness accounts from servicemembers of all ranks who participated the rescue effort, inside information from senior intelligence officials, interviews with high-ranking members of allied governments, harrowing stories from Americans and Afghan allies willfully abandoned by craven officials in Washington, and exclusive details about veteran-led rescue missions that continue to this day. Chapter after chapter, Kabul depicts American government at its worst and “ordinary” Americans at their best. Ultimately, this book explains how Biden’s Afghanistan retreat spurred a dangerous new era that persist for decades. While Americans watched the fall of Afghanistan with disbelief, our nation’s enemies were also paying close attention.
The Heart Wrenching August
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Author : Asadullah Jafari “Pezhman”
language : en
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
Release Date : 2023-06-21
The Heart Wrenching August written by Asadullah Jafari “Pezhman” and has been published by Ukiyoto Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-21 with Fiction categories.
The Heart-Wrenching August is not an unknown month in Afghanistan, and even for the world. In August 2021, Najiba was trapped by the cyberspace jihadists of the Taliban group and kidnapped from Karte Parwan in Kabul city, Afghanistan. The Taliban took her to prison because her brother was a national army soldier in the previous Afghan government. The Taliban has committed many atrocities against Najiba to surrender her brother to the Taliban regime. But she didn’t know about her brother anymore as he’d been hiding in fear of the Taliban group ever since the Taliban came to Kabul and the previous government collapsed. This was the saddest and heartwrenching August that the people of Afghanistan, especially women and girls, have ever experienced.
Escape From Kabul
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Author : Levison Wood
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2023-03-16
Escape From Kabul written by Levison Wood and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-16 with History categories.
'An important account of one of the defining moments of the modern world' PETER FRANKOPAN The evacuation of Kabul in August 2021 will go down in military history as one of the most unexpected events in modern times. In an eerie replay of the disastrous British retreat from Kabul in 1842, coalition troops withdrew from Afghanistan after twenty years of military campaigning. The subsequent collapse of the Afghan government and its army shocked the world, as a resurgent Taliban gathered its forces and swept across the country. Thousands of Afghans who had worked with the allies were left to the meagre mercy of the Taliban. As the Taliban went door to door to execute 'collaborators', a small international task force set out on a daring mission to evacuate as many Afghans and their families as possible. Drawing on a wide range of first-hand accounts - the politicians and officers who planned the trans-continental rescue, the young soldiers who were faced with the unenviable task of keeping a crowd of thousands of desperate people at bay, former interpreters and soldiers of the Afghan Special Forces who made it out - Escape from Kabul is the harrowing true story of Operation Pitting and the Kabul airlift.
The Fall Of Kabul
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Author : Nayanima Basu
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-03-21
The Fall Of Kabul written by Nayanima Basu and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Journalist Nayanima Basu had a ringside view of the total collapse of the republic of Afghanistan at the hands of the Taliban. From 8 to 17 August 2021, based in Kabul but travelling outside and talking to Afghans across the political spectrum, she sent despatches of the Taliban sweeping through the country, with provinces falling one after another. Covering a hostile war zone, a woman all alone, she saw the fall of Kabul in real time and managed to get out on the last flight by negotiating with Taliban bosses. Basu transports us to the heart of the action with her vivid narration and precise descriptions of what was happening in Afghanistan at large and Kabul in particular. Through her astonishing account of how she did her reporting – from asking gun-toting civilians for help to find her way back to her hotel and being chided by the hotel employees to stay safe in an iron room to being the only Indian journalist to ever interview the 'Butcher of Kabul' – Basu tells the story of not just the wreckage of the country's present but also of the contentious past that lead to it.
Shadow City
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Author : Taran Khan
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2019-12-05
Shadow City written by Taran Khan and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-05 with Travel categories.
'A fabulous piece of writing . . . I recommend it unreservedly' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE 'A brilliant book' CHRISTINA LAMB, author of Farewell Kabul One of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul was never to walk... When journalist Taran Khan arrives in Kabul, she uncovers a place that defies her expectations. Her wanderings with other Kabulis reveal a fragile city in a state of flux: stricken by near-constant war, but flickering with the promise of peace; governed by age-old codes but experimenting with new modes of living. Her walks take her to the unvisited tombs of the dead, and to the land of the living - like the booksellers, archaeologists, film-makers and entrepreneurs who are remaking this 3,000-year-old city. And as NATO troops begin to withdraw from the country, Khan watches the cycle of transformation begin again. **Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 2021** **Winner of the Tata Literature Live First Book Award for Non-Fiction 2020** 'Powerfully evocative' Kapka Kassabova 'A wonderful journey' Atiq Rahimi 'Khan illuminates Kabul's life-affirming humanity' TLS
Kabul Final Call
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Author : Laurie Bristow
language : en
Publisher: Whittles
Release Date : 2024-08
Kabul Final Call written by Laurie Bristow and has been published by Whittles this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08 with History categories.
A powerful and truly shocking story of the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in August, 2021. It reveals the challenges, difficult decisions and conditions in Kabul during the horrific final days and the evacuation from Kabul airport.
Shooting Kabul
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Author : N. H. Senzai
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-07-12
Shooting Kabul written by N. H. Senzai and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-12 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family emigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee camp where his little sister was accidentally left behind.
Kabul In Winter
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Author : Ann Jones
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2007-03-06
Kabul In Winter written by Ann Jones and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-06 with Social Science categories.
A sharp and arresting people's-eye view of real life in Afghanistan after the Taliban Soon after the bombing of Kabul ceased, award-winning journalist and women's rights activist Ann Jones set out for the shattered city, determined to bring help where her country had brought destruction. Here is her trenchant report from inside a city struggling to rise from the ruins. Working among the multitude of impoverished war widows, retraining Kabul's long-silenced English teachers, and investigating the city's prison for women, Jones enters a large community of female outcasts: runaway child brides, pariah prostitutes, cast-off wives, victims of rape. In the streets and markets, she hears the Afghan view of the supposed benefits brought by the fall of the Taliban, and learns that regarding women as less than human is the norm, not the aberration of one conspicuously repressive regime. Jones confronts the ways in which Afghan education, culture, and politics have repeatedly been hijacked—by Communists, Islamic fundamentalists, and the Western free marketeers—always with disastrous results. And she reveals, through small events, the big disjunctions: between U.S promises and performance, between the new "democracy" and the still-entrenched warlords, between what's boasted of and what is. At once angry, profound, and starkly beautiful, Kabul in Winter brings alive the people and day-to-day life of a place whose future depends so much upon our own.