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Ghosts of Afghanistan
Jonathan Steele
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Description for Ghosts of Afghanistan
Paperback. The definitive study of the wars in Afghanistan by the veteran reporter who has had exclusive access to all the key players over the last 30 years there from Gorbachev to WikiLeaks. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JM; HBJF; HBLX; HBWS4; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 308.
Yes, there are dozens of books on the Afghan wars. Most of them are all about firefights and heroics. But this is the first to take the events of the war Bush and Blair started and put them in the context of the Soviet war and even the British imperial wars that preceded them, and draw the lessons out, and make a sharp summary of what should happen next. Ghosts of Afghanistan stands out for the combination of its calm clarity and comprehensibility, the firmness of its arguments, Steele's stature as an analyst of the region of 30 ... Read more
Yes, there are dozens of books on the Afghan wars. Most of them are all about firefights and heroics. But this is the first to take the events of the war Bush and Blair started and put them in the context of the Soviet war and even the British imperial wars that preceded them, and draw the lessons out, and make a sharp summary of what should happen next. Ghosts of Afghanistan stands out for the combination of its calm clarity and comprehensibility, the firmness of its arguments, Steele's stature as an analyst of the region of 30 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Portobello Books
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846274312
SKU
V9781846274312
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Ref
99-32
About Jonathan Steele
Jonathan Steele was educated at Cambridge and Yale. He was Washington Bureau Chief, Moscow Bureau Chief, and Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Guardian. He is currently their columnist on international affairs. His previous book Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq was published in 2008. In May 2011, Steele won the One World Media Press Award for his reporting from ... Read more
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