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War Comes to Garmser
- Thirty Years of Conflict in the Afghan Frontier
Engelsk Hardback
War Comes to Garmser
- Thirty Years of Conflict in the Afghan Frontier
Engelsk Hardback

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War in Afghanistan will never be understood without getting to grips with the small places - the provinces, districts, and villages - where most of the fighting occurred, away from the cities, in hundreds of hamlets, valleys, and farms amid a vast landscape. Those small places and their people were the frontlines, and it is only there that we can truly find answers to the questions that lay at the heart of the war: why people supported the Taliban, whether intervention brought peace, whether a better outcome was ever possible. Garmser is a small place that has seen much violence; a single district within one of Afghanistan''s 34 provinces. Its 150,000 people inhabit a fertile strip along the Helmand River no more than 6 miles wide and 45 miles long. Carter Malkasian spent years in Garmser district as the political officer for the US Department of State. He tells the history of thirty years of war, from 1979 to 2012, explaining how the Taliban movement formed in Garmser; how, after being routed in 2001, they re- turned stronger than ever in 2006; and how Afghans, British, and Americans fought with them between 2006 and 2012. 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, they carried on, year after year, inhabitants of a small place.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9781849042642
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1849042640
Udg. Dato:
25 mar 2013
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
157mm
Højde:
223mm
Forlag:
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato:
25 mar 2013
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