August in Kabul : America's last days in Afghanistan
Quilty, Andrew, 1981-2022
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Click and Collect for August in Kabul : America's last days in AfghanistanTold through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut publication offers a remarkable record of this historic moment. As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. After a 20-year conflict with the United States, its Western allies and a proxy Afghan government, the Islamic militant group once aligned with al Qaeda was about to bury yet another foreign foe in the graveyard of empires. And for America, the superpower, this was yet another foreign disaster. As cities and towns fell to the Taliban in rapid succession, Western troops and embassy staff scrambled to flee a country of which they had lost control. To the world, Kabul in August looked like Saigon in 1975. August in Kabul is the story of how America's longest mission came to an abrupt and humiliating end, told through the eyes of Afghans whose lives have been turned upside down: a young woman who harbours dreams of a university education; a presidential staffer who works desperately to hold things together as the government collapses around him; a prisoner in the notorious Bagram Prison who suddenly finds himself free when prison guards abandon their post. Andrew Quilty was one of a handful of Western journalists who stayed in Kabul as the city fell. This is his first-hand account of those dramatic final days.
August in Kabul : America's last days in Afghanistan / Andrew Quilty.
Quilty, Andrew, 1981-, author
Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2022.©2022
xii, 292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
97805228787699780522878769
958.1048958.104
English
519028
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Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - History | 958.104 QUI | Available |
Hampton Library | Adult Non Fiction - History | 958.104 QUI | Onloan - Due: 15 Oct 2024 |
Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - History | 958.104 QUI | Available |
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