| International Standard Book Number |
9780593493106 (ebook)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780593493090 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0593493095 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Anderson, Jon Lee, author.
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| Title Statement |
To lose a war : the fall and rise of the Taliban / Jon Lee Anderson.
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| Edition Statement |
Revised and updated edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Penguin Press, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
xxiv, 371 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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| General Note |
"First published in the United States of America as The lion's graves, by Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, Inc., in 2002."--Title page verso.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Preface -- A note on title changes -- A lion's death -- The warlord -- In the court of the pretender -- The surrender -- City of dreams -- Holy and other warriors -- Mullah Omar's favorite songs -- The assassins -- The man in the palace -- The Americans' opium war -- Day of the superwadi -- Force and futility -- Annals of assassination -- An American way of killing (March 11, 2012) -- The ballad of Mullah Omar (July 30, 2015) -- Kunduz falls again (October 6, 2015) -- The return of the Taliban (August 13, 2021) -- The end of the American empire? (September 1, 2021) -- After the fall -- Afterword.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"From one of the greatest foreign correspondents of our time, whose on-the-ground reporting from Afghanistan has shaped our understanding of the country and its fate, comes the complete accounting of the era from before 9/11 to the return of the Taliban to power in 2021"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"To Lose a War collects Anderson's writing from Afghanistan over a near-quarter-century span. Containing the stories from The Lion's Grave and all of those he published since, as well as important writing appearing here for the first time..."--Front jacket flap.
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| Subject-Corporate Name |
Taliban.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Afghan War, 2001-2021.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Afghanistan History 2001-2021.
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