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Swimming with warlords

a dozen-year journey across the Afghan War

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An edition of Swimming with warlords (2014)

Swimming with warlords

a dozen-year journey across the Afghan War

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"In this electrifying first-person account, journalist and author Kevin Sites goes deep into the geopolitical morass of Afghanistan to emerge with critical insights into both a people and a war that few truly comprehend."--Page 4 of cover.

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Language
English
Pages
393

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Swimming with Warlords: A Dozen-Year Journey Across the Afghan War
2014, HarperCollins Publishers
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Swimming with warlords: a dozen-year journey across the Afghan War
2014
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Table of Contents

Prologue : entrance
Part I. The north. Over the border
Civil war
The House of Massoud
The ghosts of Kalakata
Sticks and stones
The warlord and the Taliban
Kurash
Hindu Kush
Part II. Kabul. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow
Fixers
Lions
Unintended consequences
Under the bridge
Wall of bones
More than war
Women
Lawyers, guns, and money
Part III. Jalalabad and Tora Bora. The road
Addiction affliction
Tora Bora runaround
Dead man's bed and other mysteries
Part IV. Wardak and Logar. Human terrain teams
Targets
Combat outpost Soltan Kheyl
Part V. The last embed. Suicide vest
Epilogue : exit
Afterword : America's post 9/11 legacy in shambles.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
958.1047
Library of Congress
DS371.4135 .S58 2014, DS371.4135.S58 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 393 pages :
Number of pages
393

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26473359M
Internet Archive
swimmingwithwarl0000site
ISBN 10
0062339419
ISBN 13
9780062339416
LCCN
2015413411
OCLC/WorldCat
867611604

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