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Author : Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781408831205
The author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City (winner of the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize) now gives us the startling, behind-the-scenes story of the struggle between President Obama and the US military to remake Afghanistan.
Author : Sandy Gall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008313077
Author : Paula Coffer
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1523225041
If you ever wondered what you would do if someone called you and asked if you 'would like to change the destiny of a nation' then reading this journal is for you. I was 58 years old when I received just this call. I decided to write and maintain a daily journal to capture all the emotions of deploying to a nation at war where I was tasked with developing the Afghanistan Ministry of Interior officials in budget development and execution for the nation's police force. The journal entries begin in June 2011 and end October 2014. Due to the sheer volume of the entries they are being presented in several volumes. You will be bored with some, laugh with some, say 'You can't make this shit up' with some, terrified by the close proximity of bombs and gunfire with some and even a death threat. War is not always action. Building the financial infrastructure to pay for the operations of the entire national police force isn't necessarily 'sexy' or 'intriguing'. But I think you will agree that this was an adventure worth taking. You will get an idea of how the Billions of our tax dollars were used to train, equip and pay for the operations of the Afghanistan National Police Force. You will get an idea of what it is like for a woman to interact with the Afghan Ministry personnel in a society and culture where women are not recognized. I was primarily assigned to work with the Ministry of Interior Finance and Budget office but our interactions with the Ministry of Finance were crucial to achieving our goals.
Author : Lady Florentia Wynch Sale
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789121414
During the First Anglo-Afghan War, Lady Florentia Sale, wife of a British army officer, Sir Robert Henry Sale, was kidnapped in 1842, along with other women and children, as well as soldiers, and detained for nine months. The group were taken hostage by Akbar Khan, following the massacre in the Khurd Karbul Pass. Amongst the hostages with Lady Sale was her youngest daughter Alexandrina, Alexandrina’s husband Lt. John Sturt, and their newborn daughter. Sturt was fatally injured by three dagger wounds to the abdomen, with Lady Sale nursed her son-in-law in his final hours. She bribed the Afghan officers into releasing them, and they were rescued by Sir Richmond Shakespear on 17 September 1842. Her courageous and defiant actions meant that she endangered herself frequently; she was shot in the wrist, with the bullet lodging there. Throughout her time as a captive, Lady Sale kept a diary, detailing the events of the ordeal. A year later, Lady Sale published her journal as A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan, 1841-2, which documented her experiences throughout the Afghan War, and the book received critical acclaim. An action-filled story of folly, indecision, treachery and tragedy, all the while testifying to great courage and fortitude.
Author : Rafal Gerszak,Dawn Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
ISBN : 155451293X
Stunning photos reveal an Afghanistan we rarely see.
Author : Joshua Foust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
ISBN : 1935982028
The coldest I have ever been in my life was in the mountains of Afghanistan. I was in a helicopter with the windows and doors open. It was dark, the middle of winter, and I wasn't wearing a jacket. But up there, something became clear to me: America is fighting its wars all wrong.... Thus starts Joshua Foust's riveting and thoughtful account of the U.S. military's engagement in Afghanistan in 2009 and 2010. In early 2009, Foust, a long-time analyst of Central Asian affairs and a respected blogger, got his first chance to go to the country he had been fascinated with for so long. He brought to the trip-- and to this book-- not just a wealth of knowledge about the country, but also an intelligence and sensitivity that informed all his writings during and after the trip.
Author : C. Heather Bleaney,María Ángeles Gallego
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004145320
Presents a thematically indexed bibliography devoted to Afghanistan. Following the pattern established by one of its major data sources, viz, the acclaimed Index Islamicus, both journal articles and book publications are included and indexed.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : IND:30000123000642
Author : Sean M Maloney
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612513997
Fighting For Afghanistan is the third book in the Rogue Historian trilogy, taking Maloney’s story into the conflict in 2006, when the Taliban-led insurgency threatened to overwhelm the U.S.-led coalition in southern Afghanistan. This shift to near-conventional warfare, as opposed to the small-scale guerilla attacks and urban terrorism in Kandahar, caught everybody by surprise and forced a small, under-equipped Canadian battle group, supported by a Canadian-led multinational brigade consisting of American, British, Dutch, forces, into a desperate series of battles to protect the city and to prevent the collapse of British forces in neighboring Helmand province. The author arrived on the ground just as the situation spun out of control and he was able to capture, at all levels from infantry company to battle group to brigade headquarters, exactly what happened. This book explains the difficulties in balancing security and development, the challenges of operating in an austere, alien environment, and the human cost of counterinsurgency warfare in Afghanistan. Fighting For Afghanistan takes the reader through all of the moving parts and planning and then depicts how it played out on the field of battle. During the course of the action, the author became the first Canadian military historian to go into combat since the Korean War. The battles around Kandahar City in 2006 were the turning point in the Afghanistan war and this book is the first to explain events in detail from all three levels. This is the only account that shows the scope of the fighting in the south in this time period. Because of his close proximity to the action, the author was nearly killed on several occasions that summer during the fighting and he brings the intensity of this experience to his writing.
Author : Paulien Muller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Afghan War, 2001-2021
ISBN : 9400000219
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Utrecht University, 2009.
Author : Ryan Flavelle
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443407199
In 2008, Ryan Flavelle, a reservist in the Canadian Army and a student at the University of Calgary, volunteered to serve in Afghanistan. For seven months, twenty-four-year-old Flavelle, a signaller attached to the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, endured the extreme heat, the long hours and the occasional absurdity of life as a Canadian soldier in this new war so far from home. Flavelle spent much of his time at a Canadian Forward Operating Base (FOB), living among his fellow soldiers and occasionally going outside the wire. For one sevenday period, Flavelle went into Taliban country, always walking in the footsteps of the man ahead of him, meeting Afghans and watching behind every mud wall for a sign of an enemy combatant. The Patrol is a gritty, boots-on-the-ground memoir of a soldier’s experience in the Canadian Forces in the 21st century. It is about why we fight, why men and women choose such a dangerous and demanding job, and what their lives are like when they find themselves back in our ordinary world.
Author : Jeff Courter
Publisher : Afghan Journal (the book)
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
ISBN : 9781438259666
Journey to a remote combat zone in Afghanistan with Sergeant First Class Jeff Courter, as he leaves his civilian family life in suburban Chicago and trains Eastern Afghan Border Police to defend their own turf.Learn through words and pictures how the U.S. Army struggles to bring stability to a region where fear and poverty rule. And discover how one man searches his soul to reconcile personal, professional and spiritual challenges, while striving to bring progress to this desperate and dangerous corner of the world.SELF-PUBLISHING REVIEW says AFGHAN JOURNAL is: "COMPELLING...honest, earnest and unassuming...""...A thoughtful and thought-provoking perspective on the Afghanistan War...""...Jeff Courter deserves to be heard and heeded...BUY THE BOOK and read it!"READ AN EXCERPT & other reviews at the book website: www.afghanistan-journal.com.VETERANS THANK-YOU DONATION: For each book sold, $2 goes to organizations that help wounded/fallen Afghan War vets and families.
Author : Wazhmah Osman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252052439
Portrayed in Western discourse as tribal and traditional, Afghans have in fact intensely debated women's rights, democracy, modernity, and Islam as part of their nation building in the post-9/11 era. Wazhmah Osman places television at the heart of these public and politically charged clashes while revealing how the medium also provides war-weary Afghans with a semblance of open discussion and healing. After four decades of gender and sectarian violence, she argues, the internationally funded media sector has the potential to bring about justice, national integration, and peace. Fieldwork from across Afghanistan allowed Osman to record the voices of many Afghan media producers and people. Afghans offer their own seldom-heard views on the country's cultural progress and belief systems, their understandings of themselves, and the role of international interventions. Osman analyzes the impact of transnational media and foreign funding while keeping the focus on local cultural contestations, productions, and social movements. As a result, she redirects the global dialogue about Afghanistan to Afghans and challenges top-down narratives of humanitarian development.
Author : Lady Sale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1342454558
Author : Lady Florentia Wynch Sale
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : History
ISBN : 0192803905
The first Afghan War of 1838-1842 witnessed one of the greatest defeats ever inflicted upon the British by an Asian enemy. This was the retreat from Kabul. On 6 January 1842, a force that with its followers numbered some 16,000 marched from Kabul under an illusory safe conduct; one week later Surgeon William Brydon rode alone into Jellalabad - apart from the few prisoners, the only British survivor. The rest, men, women, and children, lay dead along the ninety mile route, some killed by the ruthless Afghan enemy, the rest frozen to death in the snow. Of all the participants in the tragedy none has told the story better than Florentia, Lady Sale. Almost the archetype of the 'General's Lady', she was the wife of the doughty second-in-command at Kabul, Sir Robert Sale. Her journal begins in September 1841 when the whole position of the British, and the butterfly social existence they led in the Kabul cantonments, was menaced both by Afghan intrigue and by the incompetence oftheir own command. The journal ends a year later with the romantically appropriate rescue of Florentia by her own husband from nine months' captivity in Afghan hands. In the intervening period she had undergone the dangers of siege, the shame of capitulation and the horror of retreat; had witnessed battle, murder, and sudden death, had been exposed to freezing cold and burning heat, had endured the discomforts of vermin-infested lodgings and the terror of incessant earthquakes. All that humanity and nature could do to molest her was recorded with a laconic imperturbability and an occasional flash of sardonic humour.