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Escape from Kabul

Author : Levison Wood
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1399718118
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Escape from Kabul written by Levison Wood and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An important account of one of the defining moments of the modern world' PETER FRANKOPAN Readers' praise for Escape from Kabul: 'It's rare for a book to be so well written that you feel you are there yourself. I felt like I was holding my breath reading it. Truly eye opening and shocking' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Must read for military historians. Brilliantly written by those who understand modern warfare and politics. Highly recommended.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A compelling page-turner' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The evacuation of Kabul in August 2021 will go down in military history as one of the most unexpected events in modern times. In an eerie replay of the disastrous British retreat from Kabul in 1842, coalition troops withdrew from Afghanistan after twenty years of military campaigning. The subsequent collapse of the Afghan government and its army shocked the world, as a resurgent Taliban gathered its forces and swept across the country. Thousands of Afghans who had worked with the allies were left to the meagre mercy of the Taliban. As the Taliban went door to door to execute 'collaborators', a small international task force set out on a daring mission to evacuate as many Afghans and their families as possible. Drawing on a wide range of first-hand accounts - the politicians and officers who planned the trans-continental rescue, the young soldiers who were faced with the unenviable task of keeping a crowd of thousands of desperate people at bay, former interpreters and soldiers of the Afghan Special Forces who made it out - Escape from Kabul is the harrowing true story of Operation Pitting and the Kabul airlift. ------ 'An essential contribution to the historical record, told with lucid flair' - Sophy Roberts 'A compelling account of one of the most seismic events in recent years. . . Vividly told, Escape from Kabul captures the human cost of America's deal with the Taliban' - Larisa Brown 'Escape from Kabul is savage, adrenalin-fuelled, brutally honest, compelling, and essential reading. Wood and Jones are a dream team writing about a nightmare. . . These are the stories that soldiers tell each other when the press and politicians have packed up and moved on. These are the real stories of the men and women who snatched honour from the jaws of humiliating betrayal and defeat' - Ben Timberlake 'Escape From Kabul explains through personal knowledge and eye-witness testimony the bravery, endurance and professionalism of men and women tasked with achieving the near-impossible'- Stuart Ramsay, Chief Correspondent, Sky News 'Wood and Jones have done an excellent job of translating that chaos into a powerful narrative, replete with human drama and - to some extent - horror. It is certainly compelling and disturbing reading' - Mail on Sunday

Escape from the Taliban

Author : Bashir Sakhawarz
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399042440
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Escape from the Taliban written by Bashir Sakhawarz and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deeba first left Afghanistan in 2002, fleeing a war torn country and an abusive husband shortly after she was captured by the Taliban and nearly sold to an Arab Shaikh narrowly escaping due to a small twist of fate. In June 2021, Deeba returned to visit family in Kabul to organize the engagement of her son. Regardless of the Taliban's progress she felt safe to travel after reassurances from the Aghan and US Government's that the Taliban would not be able to take major cities. One morning, to her surprise, she awoke to the news that President Ghani had escaped and Kabul was in the hands of the Taliban, what ensued was a desperate rush to leave the city to return to the USA enduring bomb blasts and crushing crowds at the airport. This is a harrowing account of one woman caught in the US withdrawal of Kabul giving a first hand account of what it was like to be a civilian caught up in the chaos as well as giving an invaluable insight in to the life of a woman in Afghanistan.

Escape from Kabul

Author : Eberhard Muehlan
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
ISBN 13 : 9781876825164
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Escape from Kabul written by Eberhard Muehlan and published by Spotlight Poets. This book was released on 2003 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian aid workers Diane Thomas and Peter Bunch were seized by Afghanistan's Taliban regime. They and six colleagues from the international aid organisation Shelter Now spent the next 103 days in prison.

Shooting Kabul

Author : N. H. Senzai
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442401958
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Shooting Kabul written by N. H. Senzai and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family emigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee camp where his little sister was accidentally left behind.

Farewell, Four Waters

Author : Kate McCord
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0802491219
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Farewell, Four Waters written by Kate McCord and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Day 14: It should have been the beginning . . . All she needed were stamps and signatures. Marie and her translator stood in the government offices in Kabul, Afghanistan, to complete the paperwork for her new literacy project. The women in her home town, the northern village of Shehktan, would learn to read. But a spattering of gun shots exploded and an aid worker crumpled. Executed. On the streets of Kabul. Just blocks from the guesthouse. Sending shockwaves through the community. The foreign personnel assessed their options and some, including Marie’s closest friend, Carolyn, chose to leave the country. Marie and others faced the cost and elected to press forward. But the execution of the lone aid worker was just the beginning. When she returned home to her Afghan friends in Shehktan to begin classes, she felt eyes watching her, piercing through her scarf as she walked the streets lined in mud brick walls. And in the end . . . It took only 14 days for her project, her Afghan home, her community—all of it—to evaporate in an eruption of dust, grief, and loss. Betrayed by someone she trusted. Caught in a feud she knew nothing about, and having loved people on both sides, Marie struggled for the answer: How could God be present here, working here, in the soul of Afghanistan?

Escape from Kabul

Author : Levison Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781399718158
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Escape from Kabul written by Levison Wood and published by . This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crossing the River Kabul

Author : Kevin McLean
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1612348971
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Crossing the River Kabul written by Kevin McLean and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Crossing the River Kabul, author Kevin McLean tells the true story of Baryalai Popal's amazing excape from Afghanistan during the Communist takeover and his return after 9/11.

The Broken Circle

Author : Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller
Publisher : Little A
ISBN 13 : 9781503903760
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Broken Circle written by Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller and published by Little A. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Before the Soviet invasion of 1980, Enjeela Ahmadi remembers her home--Kabul, Afghanistan--as peaceful, prosperous, and filled with people from all walks of life. But after her mother, unsettled by growing political unrest, leaves for medical treatment in India, the civil war intensifies, changing young Enjeela's life forever. Amid the rumble of invading Soviet tanks, Enjeela and her family are thrust into chaos and fear when it becomes clear that her mother will not be coming home. Thus begins an epic, reckless, and terrifying five-year journey of escape for Enjeela, her siblings, and their father to reconnect with her mother. In navigating the dangers ahead of them, and in looking back at the wilderness of her homeland, Enjeela discovers the spiritual and physical strength to find hope in the most desperate of circumstances."--

Saving Kabul Corner

Author : N. H. Senzai
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442484942
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Saving Kabul Corner written by N. H. Senzai and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Ariana, a tomboy, and her ladylike cousin Laila, recently arrived from Afghanistan, do not get along but they pull together when a rival Afghani grocery store opens, rekindling an old family feud and threatening their family's lifelihood.

A Rope and a Prayer

Author : David Rohde
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143120050
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book A Rope and a Prayer written by David Rohde and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling and insightful account of a New York Times reporter's abduction by the Taliban, and his wife's struggle to free him. In November 2008, David Rohde, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times, was kidnapped by the Taliban and held captive for seven months in the tribal areas of Pakistan. In the process, Rohde became the first American to witness how Pakistan's powerful military turns a blind eye toward a Taliban ministate thriving inside its borders. In New York, David's wife Kristen Mulvihill, together with his family, kept the kidnapping secret for David's safety and struggled to navigate a labyrinth of conflicting agendas, misinformation, and lies. Part memoir, part work of journalism, A Rope and a Prayer is a story of duplicity, faith, resilience, and love.

The Lightless Sky

Author : Gulwali Passarlay
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062443887
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Lightless Sky written by Gulwali Passarlay and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Afghan child refugee chronicles his harrowing journey across the world in this “gripping account of a life-threatening journey to freedom” (Independent, UK). After his father was killed in 2006, Gulwali Passarlay was caught between the Taliban who wanted to recruit him, and the Americans who wanted to use him. To protect her son, Gulwali’s mother sent him away. The search for safety would lead the twelve-year-old across eight countries, from the mountains of eastern Afghanistan through Iran and Europe to Britain. On his yearlong trek, Gulwali endured imprisonment, hunger, cruelty, brutality, loneliness, and terror—and nearly drowned crossing the Mediterranean Sea. Eventually granted asylum in England, Gulwali was sent to a good school, learned English, won a place at a top university, and was chosen to help carry the Olympic Torch in the 2012 London Games. In The Lightless Sky, Gulwali recalls his remarkable experience and offers a firsthand look at the modern refugee crisis.

An American Bride in Kabul

Author : Phyllis Chesler
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1137365579
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book An American Bride in Kabul written by Phyllis Chesler and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few westerners will ever be able to understand Muslim or Afghan society unless they are part of a Muslim family. Twenty years old and in love, Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn, embarked on an adventure that has lasted for more than a half-century. In 1961, when she arrived in Kabul with her Afghan bridegroom, authorities took away her American passport. Chesler was now the property of her husband's family and had no rights of citizenship. Back in Afghanistan, her husband, a wealthy, westernized foreign college student with dreams of reforming his country, reverted to traditional and tribal customs. Chesler found herself unexpectedly trapped in a posh polygamous family, with no chance of escape. She fought against her seclusion and lack of freedom, her Afghan family's attempts to convert her from Judaism to Islam, and her husband's wish to permanently tie her to the country through childbirth. Drawing upon her personal diaries, Chesler recounts her ordeal, the nature of gender apartheid—and her longing to explore this beautiful, ancient, and exotic country and culture. Chesler nearly died there but she managed to get out, returned to her studies in America, and became an author and an ardent activist for women's rights throughout the world. An American Bride in Kabul is the story of how a naïve American girl learned to see the world through eastern as well as western eyes and came to appreciate Enlightenment values. This dramatic tale re-creates a time gone by, a place that is no more, and shares the way in which Chesler turned adversity into a passion for world-wide social, educational, and political reform.

Escape from Afghanistan

Author : Paul McGeoug
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Escape from Afghanistan written by Paul McGeoug and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Losing Afghanistan

Author : Brian Brivati
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785907328
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Losing Afghanistan written by Brian Brivati and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Those who wonder how the international community failed so dramatically in Afghanistan need look no further ... Losing Afghanistan explores the arguments for and against intervention and highlights the difficulty of establishing unity of purpose and effort in such demanding circumstances. Above all, it poses a question: how can we in the West claim we know so much, yet demonstrate in Afghanistan that we understand so little?" – General (retd) Sir Jack Deverell OBE, former Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Northern Europe "A wonderful book of insightful essays on Afghanistan from an outsider lens." – Ezatullah Adib, head of research at Integrity Watch Afghanistan and national country representative at the World Association for Public Opinion Research "The strategic question posed by these brilliant essays is: how can the doctrine of liberal intervention be reframed to ensure the West intervenes overseas to manage future humanitarian calamities for reasons beyond just national security?" – Brigadier (retd) Justin Hedges OBE *** When Taliban forces took Kabul on 15 August 2021, it marked the end of the Western intervention that had begun nearly twenty years earlier with the US-led invasion. The fall of Afghanistan triggered a seismic shock in the West, where US President Joe Biden announced an end to America's involvement in conflicts overseas. In Afghanistan itself it produced terror for the future for those who had worked with and grown up under the coalition-supported administration. Now, with the country spiralling into economic collapse and famine, Losing Afghanistan is a plea for us to keep our gaze on the plight of the people of Afghanistan and to understand how action and inaction in the West shaped the fate of the nation. Why was Afghanistan lost? Can it be regained? And what happens next? Edited by international development expert Brian Brivati, this collection of twenty-one essays by analysts, politicians, soldiers, commentators and practitioners – interspersed with powerful eyewitness testimony from Afghan voices – explains what happened in Afghanistan and why, and what the future holds both for its people and for liberal intervention.

Deliverance From Kabul

Author : K E Nielsen
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Deliverance From Kabul written by K E Nielsen and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parrots Lolo and Lorito meet and hold a conversation, showing the use of Good morning, please and thank you.

Shadow City

Author : Taran Khan
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9781784708023
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Shadow City written by Taran Khan and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Escape from Kabul

Author : Karen Bartlett
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620979381
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Escape from Kabul written by Karen Bartlett and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2025-06-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary true story of the Afghan women judges who fought for justice in the courtroom, then fought to escape with their lives, from the bestselling British author Across twenty years of U.S.-backed government, Afghan women obtained legal degrees, became judges, and set out to transform their country—tackling corruption, challenging traditional gender norms, and reducing horrifying levels of violence against women and children. These educated and powerful women led the mission to build Afghanistan as a modern democracy that respected the rule of law and human rights. Their work, however, posed an existential threat to everything the Taliban believed in—and when the United States withdrew in August 2021, the women judges of Afghanistan faced mortal danger. Escape from Kabul is the extraordinary, never-before-told story of their escape—with the assistance of the International Association of Women Judges—and the shocking fates of those who were unable to flee. Veteran journalist Karen Bartlett had unique access to many of the women involved, including those in exile and the judges still trapped in Afghanistan, as well as women judges from around the world who were vital to the escape effort. Combining real-life drama with searing critique, Escape from Kabul is also an indictment of the West—which abandoned its allies and the cause of women’s rights. The book closes with the judges’ recommendations for their beloved country, in their own words.