Fighting the Taliban
The Memoirs of an Afghan Army Commander
$52.29
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
29 November 2024
Summary
Following the defeat of the Taliban in 2001, Amir joined the Afghan Army and became an officer. For the next five years, he was involved in fighting the resurgent Taliban alongside American, British, and other coalition soldiers. During an operation to capture a district in Faryab province, his friend Jawad and several other soldiers were killed in an ambush. Amir berated the Afghan Brigade Commander in front of other senior officers, including some from the coalition.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781036100643 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1036100642 |
| Author: | Bashir Sakhawarz |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 29 November 2024 |
| Weight: | 394g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
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Bashir Sakhawarz
Bashir is an award-winning poet and novelist. Since his first poetry collection was awarded first prize for New Poetry by the Afghan Writers’ Association in 1978, he has published seven books in Persian and English. His latest novel Maagir The Snake Charmer was entered for the Man Asian Literary Prize by the publisher and was long-listed for the 2013 Economist Crossword Book Award. Other works have been published in Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the European Society for Central Asia, Images of Afghanistan, Language for a New Century, English Pen, Asian Literary Review, Cha Literary Journal, East of the Web, and Litro. He is the winner of the 2015 Geneva Writers Group Literary Award for Fiction.
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