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1 online resource (xv, 393 pages) : illustrations |
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Prologue : entrance -- Part I. The north. Over the border -- Civil war -- The House of Massoud -- The ghosts of Kalakata -- Sticks and stones -- The warlord and the Taliban -- Kurash -- Hindu Kush -- Part II. Kabul. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow -- Fixers -- Lions -- Unintended consequences -- Under the bridge -- Wall of bones -- More than war -- Women -- Lawyers, guns, and money -- Part III. Jalalabad and Tora Bora. The road -- Addiction affliction -- Tora Bora runaround -- Dead man's bed and other mysteries -- Part IV. Wardak and Logar. Human terrain teams -- Targets -- Combat outpost Soltan Kheyl -- Part V. The last embed. Suicide vest -- Epilogue : exit -- Afterword : America's post 9/11 legacy in shambles. |
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"In this electrifying first-person account, journalist and author Kevin Sites goes deep into the geopolitical morass of Afghanistan to emerge with critical insights into both a people and a war that few truly comprehend."--Page 4 of cover. |
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An American war correspondent who first entered Afghanistan in Ocotber, 2001, recounts his five visits to the country, including a trip in the summer of 2013 to revisit the people and places he saw the first time, and discusses conditions. |
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Sites, Kevin.
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Sites, Kevin. |
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Afghan War (2001-) |
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Afghan War, 2001- -- Press coverage.
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Sites, Kevin -- Travel -- Afghanistan.
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War correspondents -- Afghanistan -- Biography.
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War correspondents -- United States -- Biography.
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Afghan War, 2001-
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War correspondents. |
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Afghanistan -- History -- 2001-
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Afghanistan. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books. |
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Biography.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Sites, Kevin. Swimming with warlords New York : Harper Perennial, [2014] 9780062339416 (NjBwBT)bl2014044442 (OCoLC)867611604 |
| ISBN |
9780062339423 : $15.99 |
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0062339427 : $15.99 |
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