To lose a war : the fall and rise of the Taliban
2025
Book
"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.Subjects:
Other Authors: revision of: Anderson, Jon Lee. Lion's grave.