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To lose a war : the fall and rise of the Taliban /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anderson, Jon Lee (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, [2025].
Subjects:
Taliban.
Afghan War, 2001-2021.
Afghanistan > History > 2001-2021.
Table of 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.