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Seth G. Jones

In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan

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A definitive account of the American experience in Afghanistan from the rise of the Taliban to the depths of the insurgency.After the swift defeat of the Taliban in 2001, American optimism has steadily evaporated in the face of mounting violence; a new war of a thousand cuts” has now brought the country to its knees. In the Graveyard of Empires is a political history of Afghanistan in the Age of Terror” from 2001 to 2009, exploring the fundamental tragedy of America's longest war since Vietnam.After a brief survey of the great empires in Afghanistan—the campaigns of Alexander the Great, the British in the era of Kipling, and the late Soviet U… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-393-07142-9
  • EAN: 9780393071429
  • Produktnummer: 34245820
  • Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 448 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 3'185 KB
  • Abbildungen: 12 maps and charts

Über den Autor


Seth G. Jones is the Harold Brown Chair and Director of the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), as well as the author of A Covert Action, In the Graveyard of Empires, and Hunting in the Shadows. He lives outside of Washington, DC.

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