To lose a war : the fall and rise of the Taliban / Jon Lee Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Jon Lee, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taliban.

Afghan War, 2001-2021.

Afghanistan--History--2001-2021.

Afghanistan.

Genre:

Military history.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 371 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

Revised and updated edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Press, 2025.

Summary:

"To Lose a War collections Anderson's writing from Afghanistan over a near-quarter-century span. Containing the stories from The Lion's Grave and all of those he published since, as well as important writing appearing here for the first time..."--Front jacket flap.

"From one of the greatest foreign correspondents of our time, whose on-the-ground reporting from Afghanistan has shaped our understanding of the country and its fate, comes the complete accounting of the era from before 9/11 to the return of the Taliban to power in 2021"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface

A note on title changes

A lion's death

The warlord

In the court of the pretender

The surrender

City of dreams

Holy and other warriors

Mullah Omar's favorite songs

The assassins

The man in the palace

The Americans' opium war

Day of the superwadi

Force and futility

Annals of assassination

An American way of killing (March 11, 2012)

The ballad of Mullah Omar (July 30, 2015)

The latest fall of Kunduz (October 6, 2015)

The return of the Taliban (August 13, 2021)

The end of the American empire? (September 1, 2021)

After the fall

Afterword.

Notes:

"First published in the United States of America as The lion's graves, by Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, Inc., in 2002."--Title page verso.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Online version: Anderson, Jon Lee. To lose a war

ISBN:

9780593493090

0593493095

OCLC:

1472584486