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An enthralling and largely firsthand account of the war in Afghanistan. Financial Times
Few reporters know as much about Afghanistan as Carlotta Gall. She was there in the 1990s after the Russians were driven out. She witnessed the early flourishing of radical Islam, imported from abroad, which caused so much local suffering. She was there right after 9/11, when the US special forces helped the Northern Alliance drive the Taliban out of the north and then the south, fighting pitched battles and causing their enemies to flee underground and into Pakistan. She knows just how much this war has cost the Afghan people. And she knows just how much damage can be traced to Pakistan and its duplicitous government and intelligence forces. Combining searing personal accounts of battles and betrayals with moving portraits of the ordinary Afghans who were caught up in the conflict of more than a decade, The Wrong Enemy is a sweeping account of a war brought by American leaders against an enemy they barely understood and could not truly engage.
A strong, well-crafted account by an informed observer. The Economist
Gall is perhaps uniquely positioned to tackle the troubling questions she raises about Pakistan's alleged support of terrorism . . . a must-read. Christian Science Monitor
[AU PHOTO] CARLOTTA GALL has worked for the New York Times since 1999, first in the Balkans and since 2001 in Afghanistan and Pakistan. She previously worked for the Financial Times and The Economist. She was the lead reporter on the New York Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2009."
Few reporters know as much about Afghanistan as Carlotta Gall. She was there in the 1990s after the Russians were driven out. She witnessed the early flourishing of radical Islam, imported from abroad, which caused so much local suffering. She was there right after 9/11, when the US special forces helped the Northern Alliance drive the Taliban out of the north and then the south, fighting pitched battles and causing their enemies to flee underground and into Pakistan. She knows just how much this war has cost the Afghan people. And she knows just how much damage can be traced to Pakistan and its duplicitous government and intelligence forces. Combining searing personal accounts of battles and betrayals with moving portraits of the ordinary Afghans who were caught up in the conflict of more than a decade, The Wrong Enemy is a sweeping account of a war brought by American leaders against an enemy they barely understood and could not truly engage.
A strong, well-crafted account by an informed observer. The Economist
Gall is perhaps uniquely positioned to tackle the troubling questions she raises about Pakistan's alleged support of terrorism . . . a must-read. Christian Science Monitor
[AU PHOTO] CARLOTTA GALL has worked for the New York Times since 1999, first in the Balkans and since 2001 in Afghanistan and Pakistan. She previously worked for the Financial Times and The Economist. She was the lead reporter on the New York Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2009."
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- Title The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014
- Author Carlotta Gall
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books
- Publication date 2015-04-14
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780544538566 / 0544538560
- Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.1 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Military
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: French
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Topical: Civil War
- Category History - Military / War
- Library of Congress subjects Pakistan, Qaida (Organization)
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2015302317
- Dewey Decimal Code 958.104
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- Christian Century, 12/09/2015, Page 34
- New York Times Book Review, 05/03/2015, Page 28
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