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The dust of Kandahar : a diplomat among warriors in Afghanistan / Jonathan S. Addleton.
Van Pelt Library DS371.413 .A38 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Addleton, Jonathan S. (Jonathan Stuart), 1957- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Addleton, Jonathan S. (Jonathan Stuart), 1957---Diaries.
- Addleton, Jonathan S.
- Addleton, Jonathan S. (Jonathan Stuart), 1957-.
- USAID/Afghanistan.
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 3rd.
- United States.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Personal narratives, American.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021.
- Diplomats--United States--Biography.
- Diplomats.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Campaigns--Afghanistan--Kandahār.
- Kandahār (Afghanistan)--Politics and government.
- Kandahār (Afghanistan).
- Military campaigns.
- Politics and government.
- Afghanistan--Kandahār.
- Local Subjects:
- USAID/Afghanistan.
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 3rd.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- American.
- Biographies.
- Diaries.
- Autobiographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 253 pages,16 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Diplomat among warriors in Afghanistan
- Place of Publication:
- Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- The Dust of Kandahar provides a personal account of one diplomat's year of service in Afghanistan. Ambassador Addleton movingly describes the everyday human drama of the American soldiers, local tribal dignitaries, government officials, and religious leaders with whom he interacted and worked. The author's writing is at its most vivid in his firsthand account of the April 2013 suicide bombing outside a Zabul school that killed his translator, a fellow Foreign Service officer, and three American soldiers. The memory of this tragedy lingers over Addleton's journal entries, his prose offering poignant glimpses into the interior life of a U.S. diplomat stationed in harm's way. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1. August
- 2. September
- 3. October
- 4. November
- 5. December
- 6. January
- 7. February
- 8. March
- 9. April
- 10. May
- 11. June
- 12. July
- 13. August
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781682470794
- 1682470792
- OCLC:
- 945951304
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