Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan To A More Dangerous World PDF
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Copyright William Collins An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.WilliamCollinsBooks.com First published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2015 Copyright © Christina Lamb 2015 Christina Lamb asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work Cover photograph: Guns & Roses, taken from his exhibition The Best View of Heaven is from Hell © Bran Symondson Maps by John Gilkes A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Source ISBN: 9780007256921 Ebook Edition © April 2015 ISBN: 9780007287277 Version: 2015-03-30 Dedication In memory of all those who lost their lives to terrorism – or fighting it – from New York to London to Kandahar to Peshawar Epigraph It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. General Douglas MacArthur Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Maps The Leaving PART 1: GETTING IN 1 Rule Number One 2 Sixty Words 3 Making – and Almost Killing – a President 4 Ground Zero 5 Losing bin Laden – the Not So Great Escape 6 A Tale of Two Generals 7 Taliban Central 8 Merchants of Ruin – the Return of the Warlords 9 Theatre of War 10 A Tale of Two Wars 11 Voting With Mullah Omar PART II: WAR 12 Ambush 13 Bringing Dolphins to Helmand 14 Tethered Goats 15 The President in His Bloody Palace 16 Whose Side Are You On? 17 The Snake Bites Back 18 The Weathermen of Kandahar 19 We’ll Always Have Kabul 20 Death of a Poet 21 Meeting Colonel Imam PART III: THE GOOD WAR 22 The View From Washington 23 All About the Politics 24 The Butcher of Mumbai 25 Losing the Moral High Ground in Margaritaville 26 Chairman Mullen and the Cadillac of the Skies PART IV: GETTING OUT 27 Killing bin Laden Postscript: War Never Leaves You Picture Section Acknowledgements Notes Select Bibliography Index Also by Christina Lamb About the Author About the Publisher
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