Bibliograph

The wrong enemy, America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014, Carlotta Gall

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The wrong enemy, America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014, Carlotta Gall

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The wrong enemy

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Carlotta Gall

Sub title

America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014

Summary

Few reporters know as much about Afghanistan as Carlotta Gall. She was there in the 1990s after the Russians were driven out. She witnessed the early flourishing of radical Islam, imported from abroad, which caused so much local suffering. She was there right after 9/11, when US special forces helped the Northern Alliance drive the Taliban out of the north and then the south, fighting pitched battles and causing their enemies to flee underground and into Pakistan. Gall knows just how much this war has cost the Afghan people-and just how much damage can be traced to Pakistan and its duplicitous government and intelligence forces. Combining searing personal accounts of battles and betrayals with moving portraits of the ordinary Afghans who were caught up in the conflict for more than a decade, The Wrong Enemy is a sweeping account of a war brought by American leaders against an enemy they barely understood and could not truly engage

Target audience

adult

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