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To lose a war : the fall and rise of the Taliban
—Anderson, Jon Lee, author.
2025

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"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Item Details

ISBN:

  • 9780593493090
  • 0593493095

Edition: Revised and updated edition.

Description: xxiv, 371 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:

  • "First published in the United States of America as The Lion's Grave, by Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, Inc., in 2002"--Title page verso.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

  • 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)
  • Kunduz falls again (October 6, 2015)
  • The return of the Taliban (August 13, 2021)
  • The end of the American empire? (September 1, 2021)
  • After the fall.

LCCN: 2025000837

Control Number: 3370587

Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2025.
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