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Swimming with Warlords: A Dozen-Year Journey Across the Afghan War
Kevin Sites
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Description for Swimming with Warlords: A Dozen-Year Journey Across the Afghan War
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FCA; HBWS4; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 316.
The veteran journalist and author of In the Hot Zone and The Things They Cannot Say explores the impact of more than a decade of war on Afghanistan, from the American invasion after 9/11 to today, and offers insights into its future and the possible consequences for the U.S. Kevin Sites made his first trip to Afghanistan in October 2001, staying 100 days to cover the U.S. invasion for NBC News. On his fifth trip to the country in June 2013, Sites retraced that first odyssey, contemplating the significant events of his original trip to explore what, if anything, ... Read more
The veteran journalist and author of In the Hot Zone and The Things They Cannot Say explores the impact of more than a decade of war on Afghanistan, from the American invasion after 9/11 to today, and offers insights into its future and the possible consequences for the U.S. Kevin Sites made his first trip to Afghanistan in October 2001, staying 100 days to cover the U.S. invasion for NBC News. On his fifth trip to the country in June 2013, Sites retraced that first odyssey, contemplating the significant events of his original trip to explore what, if anything, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
316g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780062339416
SKU
V9780062339416
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About Kevin Sites
Kevin Sites has spent more than a decade covering wars and conflicts for ABC, NBC, CNN, Yahoo! News, and Vice magazine. He is the author of In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars and The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won't Tell You About What They've Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War. He is ... Read more
Reviews for Swimming with Warlords: A Dozen-Year Journey Across the Afghan War
"Kevin Sites is one of our national treasures...a fearless correspondent who has devoted himself to documenting not just the facts of war, but also its deepest emotional textures."
Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice "Gripping and poignant..."
Kirkus Reviews "While offering a sober look at the state of Afghanistan, the book ... Read more
Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice "Gripping and poignant..."
Kirkus Reviews "While offering a sober look at the state of Afghanistan, the book ... Read more