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Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan To A More Dangerous WorldStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionFrom the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong? Twenty-seven years ago, Christina Lamb left Britain to become a journalist in Pakistan. She crossed the Hindu Kush into Afghanistan with mujaheddin fighting the Russians and fell unequivocally in love with this fierce country of pomegranates and war, a relationship which has dominated her adult life. Since 2001, Lamb has watched with incredulity as the West fought a war with its hands tied, committed too little too late, failed to understand local dynamics and turned a blind eye as their Taliban enemy was helped by their ally Pakistan. Farewell Kabul tells how success was turned into defeat in the longest war fought by the United States in its history and by Britain since the Hundred Years War. It has been a fiasco which has left Afghanistan still one of the poorest nations on earth, the Taliban undefeated, and nuclear armed Pakistan perhaps the most dangerous place on earth. ReviewsPraise for 'House of Stone': 'Lamb is a careful observer, and her anguished refrain is the terrible schizophrenia of people who fiercely love their land but do nothing to save it ! the strength is in the storytelling ! her book deserves to be read.' Daily Telegraph 'A remarkable blend of outrage, compassion and hope, Christina Lamb's book is an alternately horrifying and uplifting insight into the Taliban regime.' Justin Marozzi, Evening Standard Author descriptionChristina Lamb is foreign correspondent of The Sunday Times. Named Young Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards for her original despatches from Afghanistan, she was awarded Foreign Affairs Writer of the Year by the Foreign Press Association. She is also the author of the best-selling 'The Africa House', 'Waiting for Allah' and 'The Sewing Circles of Herat'. |