War Comes to Garmser

preview-18
  • War Comes to Garmser Book Detail

  • Author : Carter Malkasian
  • Release Date : 2013
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 349
  • ISBN 13 : 019997375X
  • File Size : 4,4 MB

War Comes to Garmser by Carter Malkasian PDF Summary

Book Description: If you want to understand Afghanistan, writes Carter Malkasian, you need to understand what has happened on the ground, in the villages and countryside that were on the frontline. These small places are the heart of the war. Modeled on the classic Vietnam War book, War Comes to Long An, Malkasian's War Comes to Garmser promises to be a landmark account of the war in Afghanistan. The author, who spent nearly two years in Garmser, a community in war-torn Helmand province, tells the story of this one small place through the jihad, the rise and fall of Taliban regimes, and American and British surge. Based on his conversations with hundreds of Afghans, including government officials, tribal leaders, religious leaders, and over forty Taliban, and drawing on extensive primary source material, Malkasian takes readers into the world of the Afghans. Through their feuds, grievances, beliefs, and way of life, Malkasian shows how the people of Garmser have struggled for three decades through brutal wars and short-lived regimes. Beginning with the victorious but destabilizing jihad against the Soviets and the ensuing civil war, he explains how the Taliban movement formed; how, after being routed in 2001, they returned stronger than ever in 2006; and how Afghans, British, and Americans fought with them thereafter. Above all, he describes the lives of Afghans who endured and tried to build some kind of order out of war. While Americans and British came and went, Afghans carried on, year after year. Afghanistan started out as the good war, the war we fought for the right reasons. Now for many it seems a futile military endeavor, costly and unwinnable. War Comes to Garmser offers a fresh, original perspective on this war, one that will redefine how we look at Afghanistan and at modern war in general.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own War Comes to Garmser books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

War Comes to Garmser

War Comes to Garmser

File Size : 16,16 MB
Total View : 3786 Views
DOWNLOAD

If you want to understand Afghanistan, writes Carter Malkasian, you need to understand what has happened on the ground, in the villages and countryside that wer

The American War in Afghanistan

The American War in Afghanistan

File Size : 73,73 MB
Total View : 8389 Views
DOWNLOAD

A New York Times Notable Book Winner of 2022 Lionel Gelber Prize The first authoritative history of American's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar

War Comes to Garmser

War Comes to Garmser

File Size : 30,30 MB
Total View : 2652 Views
DOWNLOAD

If you want to understand Afghanistan, writes Carter Malkasian, you need to understand what has happened on the ground, in the villages and countryside that wer

War from the Ground Up

War from the Ground Up

File Size : 34,34 MB
Total View : 6434 Views
DOWNLOAD

This is a philosophical treatise on war written by an Oxford grad who served in Afghanistan.

Illusions of Victory

Illusions of Victory

File Size : 24,24 MB
Total View : 3583 Views
DOWNLOAD

In the immediate aftermath of the 2007 "Surge" of American troops in Iraq, the defeat of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) in Anbar Province was widely hailed as one of Am