Ghosts of Afghanistan : hard truths and foreign myths / Jonathan Steele.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steele, Jonathan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Afghanistan--History--Soviet occupation, 1979-1989.

Afghanistan.

History.

Afghanistan--History--1989-2001.

Afghanistan--History--2001-2021.

Afghan War, 2001-2021.

Taliban.

Physical Description:

437 pages : map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2011]

Summary:

Award-winning UK journalist Steele asks, "What is it that keeps tempting powerful foreign states to spend soldiers' lives in seeking control of a country that is landlocked, not endowed with oil and much poorer than its less invaded neighbors?" Steele claims that the US has repeated so many mistakes made by the Soviet Union in the 1980s because much of the West's conventional wisdom on Afghanistan rests on myths. Drawing on interviews of eye-witnesses as well as on his own 30 years of experience reporting on the situation in Afghanistan, Steele reviews events from the Soviet invasion through the Obama era, with material organized around 13 myths about Afghanistan. He offers recommendations for ending the civil war in Afghanistan. The book includes a chronology and a guide to people mentioned in the book. Steele is former chief of foreign correspondence for the Guardian newspaper. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781582437873

1582437874

OCLC:

711052096