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  • Promises Betrayed: An Afghan Interpreter at The Fall of Kabul

    by Jamil Hassan ...
    Few operations in the War on Terror in Afghanistan would have been possible without the help of a vital group-Afghan translators and interpreters. While these individuals served alongside our troops, often at significant risk, many did not make it out during the August 2021 withdrawal and are still awaiting evacuation.One who did manage to escape, however, was Afghan interpreter Jamil Hassan, and ... Read more

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    The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

    by Steve Coll ...
    **Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • Nominated for the National Book Award for NonfictionFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11**Prior to 9/11, the United States had ... Read more

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  • The Daughters of Kobani

    A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice

    by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won“The Daughters of Kobani is an unforgettable and nearly mythic tale of women's power and courage. The young women profiled in this book fought a fearsome war against brutal men in impossible circumstances—and proved in the process what girls and women can accomplish when given the chance to lead. ... Read more

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  • ISIS Dawn: Special Forces War in Syria & Iraq

    by Steve Stone ...
    ISIS has become synonymous with brutal killings, slavery and the barbaric use of women as sex slaves. Islamic State or ISIS adhere to a doctrine of war without any limits or constraints. They do not believe in arbitration or compromise when it comes to settling disputes. As part of Task Force Black the SAS, SBS, Delta Force and SEAL team six have taken on a dangerous adversary. Making use of the ... Read more

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  • The Wrong Enemy

    America in Afghanistan, 2001–2014

    by Carlotta Gall ...
    A journalist with deep knowledge of the region provides "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 ... Read more

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  • Farewell Kabul

    From Afghanistan To A More Dangerous World

    by Christina Lamb ...
    From 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 the West’s war in Afghanistan and across the Middle East go so wrong?Farewell Kabul tells how the West turned success into defeat in the longest war fought by the United States in its ... Read more

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  • The American War in Afghanistan

    A History

    by Carter Malkasian ...
    A New York Times Notable Book Winner of 2022 Lionel Gelber Prize The first authoritative history of America's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar-practitioners. The American war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001, is now the longest armed conflict in the nation's history. It is currently winding down, and American troops are likely to leave soon — but only after a stay of nearly two ... Read more

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  • In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan

    America's War in Afghanistan

    by Seth G. Jones ...
    “How we got to where we are in Afghanistan.”—Matthew Kaminski, Wall Street JournalThis definitive account of the American experience in Afghanistan “[zeroes] in on what went awry after America’s successful routing of the Taliban in late 2001” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) to explain how a growing sanctuary for insurgents in Pakistan and a collapsing government in Kabul catalyzed the Taliban ... Read more

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  • In the Line of Fire

    A Memoir

    by Pervez Musharraf ...
    According to Time magazine, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf holds "the world's most dangerous job." He has twice come within inches of assassination. His forces have caught more than 670 members of al Qaeda in the mountains and cities, yet many others remain at large and active, including Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahiri. Long locked in a deadly embrace with its nuclear neighbor India, ... Read more

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  • Libya

    Murder in Benghazi and the Fall of Gaddafi

    by Martin Chulov, Luke Harding ...
    In the brutal hours before and after Gaddafis overthrow and throughout the revolutionary aftermath of the past year, Luke Harding and Martin Chulov have reported for the Guardian from inside Libya. In this Guardian Short, brand-new reportage gives in vivid, personal detail, an eyewitness account of the moment of Gaddafis capture and the current state of Libya.The end for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi when ... Read more

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  • The Killing of Osama Bin Laden

    by Seymour M. Hersh ...
    An electrifying investigation of the White House’ lies about the assassination of Osama bin Laden—from a Pulitzer Prize winner hailed as “the greatest investigative journalist of his era” (New Yorker).“An explosive account.” —Los Angeles TimesIn 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had ... Read more

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  • Little America

    The War Within the War for Afghanistan

    by Rajiv Chandrasekaran ...
    A New York Times Notable BookThe author of the acclaimed bestseller and National Book Award finalist, Imperial Life in the Emerald City, tells the startling, behind-the-scenes story of the US’s political and military misadventure in Afghanistan. In this meticulously reported and illuminating book, Rajiv Chandrasekaran focuses on southern Afghanistan in the year of President Obama’s surge, and ... Read more

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