American Empire Project
Author
Author
Series
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 304 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"As U.S. troops prepare to withdraw, the shocking tale of how the American military had triumph in sight in Afghanistan--and then brought the Taliban back from the dead. In the popular imagination, Afghanistan is often regarded as the site of intractable conflict, the American war against the Taliban a perpetually hopeless quagmire. But as Anand Gopal demonstrates in this stunning chronicle, top Taliban leaders were in fact ready to surrender within...