The Hardest Place The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley
eAudio - 2021
COLBY AWARD WINNER • “One of the most important books to come out of the Afghanistan war.”—Foreign Policy “A saga of courage and futility, of valor and error and heartbreak.”—Rick Atkinson, author of the Liberation Trilogy and The British Are Coming Of the many battlefields on which U.S. troops and intelligence operatives fought in Afghanistan, one remote corner of the country stands as a microcosm of the American campaign: the Pech and its tributary valleys in Kunar and Nuristan. The area’s rugged, steep terrain and thick forests made it a natural hiding spot for local insurgents and international terrorists alike, and it came to represent both the valor and futility of America’s two-decade-long Afghan war. Drawing on... reporting trips, hundreds of interviews, and documentary research, Wesley Morgan reveals the history of the war in this iconic region,...
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File Size | 617 GB |
Parts | 21 |
ISBN | 9780593286807 |
Release Date | 3/9/2021 |
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File Size | 617 GB |
ISBN | 9780593286807 |
Release Date | 3/9/2021 |