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“larisa brown”

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  • The Gardener of Lashkar Gah

    The Afghans who Risked Everything to Fight the Taliban

    by Larisa Brown ...
    "Beautifully researched and deeply moving, [this book] brought me to tears more than once" - John Simpson, The Guardian"First-class...exhaustively researched and sensitively written" - The TimesFrom the journalist who investigated the shocking 2022 Afghan data breach, the extraordinary true story of the ordinary Afghans during the end of the 'War on Terror'.<... ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Gardener of Lashkar Gah

    The Afghans who Risked Everything to Fight the Taliban

    by Larisa Brown ...
    Narrated by Olivia Dowd ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 15 min

    Bloomsbury presents The Gardener of Lashkar Gah by Larisa Brown, read by Olivia Dowd."Beautifully researched and deeply moving, [this book] brought me to tears more than once" — John Simpson, The Guardian"First-class...exhaustively researched and sensitively written" — The TimesFrom the journalist who investigated the shocking 2022 Afghan data breach, the extraordinary true story of the Afghans ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

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  • Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964–1985

    by Kate Brown, Dominic Boyer, Larisa Honey, Olga Livshin, Anna Paretskaya, Benjamin M. Sutcliffe, Sergei I. Zhuk, Robert Edelman ...
    What did it mean to be a Soviet citizen in the 1970s and 1980s? How can we explain the liberalization that preceded the collapse of the USSR? This period in Soviet history is often depicted as stagnant with stultified institutions and the oppression of socialist citizens. However, the socialist state was not simply an oppressive institution that dictated how to live and what to think—it also ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

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  • Walking Free

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    On the June 6, 2004, while on assignment in Riyadh, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed outright. Frank was hit in the shoulder and leg. As he lay in the dust, a figure stood over him and pumped four more bullets into his body at point-blank range...Against all the odds, Frank Gardner survived.Today, although ... Read more

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  • The Angel

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