My Life with the Taliban / Abdul Salam Zaeef ; edited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zaeef, Abdul Salam, author.

Contributor:

Strick van Linschoten, Alex, editor.

Kuehn, Felix, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Z̤aʻīf, ʻAbd al-Salām, 1967 or 1968-.

Z̤aʻīf, ʻAbd al-Salām.

Taliban--Biography.

Taliban.

Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp--Biography.

Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.

Afghan War, 2001- -- Biography.;Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp--Biography.;Prisoners of war--Afghanistan--Biography.;Prisoners of war--United States--Biography.;Taliban--Biography.;Z̤aʻīf, ʻAbd al-Salām, 1967 or 1968-.

Afghan War, 2001- -- Biography.;Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp -- Biography.;Prisoners of war -- Afghanistan -- Biography.;Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography.;Taliban -- Biography.;Z̤aʻīf, ʻAbd al-Salām, 1967 or 1968-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (681 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Hurst & Company, 2010.

Summary:

This is the autobiography of Abdul Salam Zaeef, a senior former member of the Taliban. His memoirs, translated from Pashto, are more than just a personal account of his extraordinary life. My Life with the Taliban offers a counter-narrative to the standard accounts of Afghanistan since 1979. Zaeef describes growing up in rural poverty in Kandahar province. Both of his parents died at an early age, and the Russian invasion of 1979 forced him to flee to Pakistan. He started fighting the jihad in 1983, during which time he was associated with many major figures in the anti-Soviet resistance, incl

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Kandahar: Portrait of a City; Editors' Acknowledgements; Editors' Notes; Character List; Foreword by Barnett R. Rubin; Preface by Abdul Salam Zaeef; 1. Death at Home; 2. The Camps; 3. The Jihad; 4. Lessons from the ISI; 5. Bitter Pictures; 6. Withdrawal; 7. Taking Action; 8. The Beginning; 9. Administrative Rule; 10. Mines and Industries; 11. A Monumental Task; 12. Diplomatic Principles; 13. Growing Tensions; 14. The Osama Issue; 15. 9/11 and its Aftermath; 16. A Hard Realisation; 17. Prisoner 306; 18. Guantánamo Bay; 19. Graveyard of the Living

20. Getting Out21. No War to Win; Epilogue: Afghanistan Today; Note; Bibliography; Chronology; Glossary; Suggestions for Further Reading; About the Author and Editors; Index; Footnotes; Otherfmfn; Forewordfn

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 12, 2016).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-84904-444-9

1-84904-445-7

OCLC:

863822867