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The wake of war : encounters with the people of Iraq and Afghanistan / Anne Nivat ; translated from the French by Jane Marie Todd.
LIBRA DS371.4 .N5813 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nivat, Anne.
- Standardized Title:
- Lendemains de guerre. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Afghanistan--History--2001-2021.
- Afghanistan.
- History.
- Iraq--History--2003-.
- Iraq.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 304 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- In the spring of 2003, acclaimed journalist Nivat set off from Tajikistan on a six-month journey through the aftermath of the American invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. Each person she met speaks of hope, sadness, anger, and, above all, the uncertainty that fills their lives.
- Contents:
- In Iraq after the U.S. military victory of April 2003
- The proscenium
- En route to Erbil
- A Kurdish family
- A young leader
- The major holidays
- A Turkoman family
- En route to Baghdad
- Baghdad
- A Dominican friar
- A resistance fighter and a former fedayee
- In the "Sunni triangle"
- En route to An Najaf
- A Shiite family
- A former admiral
- A man of the theater
- In Afghanistan, after the U.S. military victory of December 2001
- En route to Kunduz
- A teacher
- En route to Badakhshān
- An engineer
- A gynecologist
- En route to Maz̄ar-E-Sharif
- A war chief
- En route to Kabul
- Kabul
- En route to Kandahār
- A former Taliban
- En route to Khost
- A governor and former commander
- The minor holidays
- Detour through Peshawar.
- Notes:
- "First published in France under the title Lendemains de guerre: en Afghanistan et en Irak by Librairie Artheme Fayard"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 304).
- ISBN:
- 0807002402
- OCLC:
- 59401966
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