Book Details
Title: August in Kabul; America's Last Days in Afghanistan
Author: Andrew Quilty
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Year: 2022
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 292
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 978-0-522-87876-9
Battle Scars:
Overall good condition.
Outside:
The cover is intact with minor shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners as pictured. There is a moderate crease to the right lower corner on the front cover as pictured.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact. The first few pages have a crease to the bottom right corner which has persisted from the cover creasing.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. After a 20-year conflict with the United States, its Western allies and a proxy Afghan government, the Islamic militant group once aligned with al Queda was about to bury yet another foreign foe in the graveyard of empires. And for the US, the superpower, this was yet another foreign disaster. As cities and towns fell to the Taliban in rapid succession, Western troops and embassy staff scrambled to flee a country of which its government had lost control. To the world, Kabul in August looked like Saigon in 1975.
August in Kabul is the story of how America's longest mission came to an abrupt and humiliating end, told through the eyes of Afghans whose lives have been turned upside down: a young woman who harbours dreams of a university education; a presidential staffer who works desperately to hold things together as the government collapses around him; a prisoner in the notorious Bagram Prison who suddenly finds himself free when prison guards abandon their post.
Andrew Quilty was one of a handful of Western journalists who stayed in Kabul as the city fell. This is his first-hand account of those dramatic final days."
Book Details
Title: August in Kabul; America's Last Days in Afghanistan
Author: Andrew Quilty
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Year: 2022
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 292
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 978-0-522-87876-9
Battle Scars:
Overall good condition.
Outside:
The cover is intact with minor shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners as pictured. There is a moderate crease to the right lower corner on the front cover as pictured.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact. The first few pages have a crease to the bottom right corner which has persisted from the cover creasing.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. After a 20-year conflict with the United States, its Western allies and a proxy Afghan government, the Islamic militant group once aligned with al Queda was about to bury yet another foreign foe in the graveyard of empires. And for the US, the superpower, this was yet another foreign disaster. As cities and towns fell to the Taliban in rapid succession, Western troops and embassy staff scrambled to flee a country of which its government had lost control. To the world, Kabul in August looked like Saigon in 1975.
August in Kabul is the story of how America's longest mission came to an abrupt and humiliating end, told through the eyes of Afghans whose lives have been turned upside down: a young woman who harbours dreams of a university education; a presidential staffer who works desperately to hold things together as the government collapses around him; a prisoner in the notorious Bagram Prison who suddenly finds himself free when prison guards abandon their post.
Andrew Quilty was one of a handful of Western journalists who stayed in Kabul as the city fell. This is his first-hand account of those dramatic final days."
