The Gardener of Lashkar Gah: The Afghans who Risked Everything to Fight the Taliban
Autor Larisa Brownen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 aug 2024
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781399411004
ISBN-10: 1399411004
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 8-page plate section of photographs
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1399411004
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 8-page plate section of photographs
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
A rising star at The Times, Larisa Brown has spent years in Afghanistan and reporting on the scandalous abandonment of translators in the war in the Middle East. She will be a brilliant asset in promotion of the book.
Notă biografică
Larisa Brown is a multi-award winning journalist and Defence Editor of The Times. She has many years of experience reporting from conflict zones around the world, including Syria, Libya and Afghanistan. Prior to joining The Times, Larisa was Defence and Security Editor at the Daily Mail where she spearheaded the newspaper's much praised Betrayal of the Brave campaign. It fought for interpreters who helped fight the Taliban to be given sanctuary in Britain and won Campaign of the Year at the British Journalism Awards 2018.
Recenzii
'[Larisa Brown's] account of what happened to one particular family - the father, who used to tend the gardens in a British compound at Lashkar Gah base, his son who worked with British soldiers as an interpreter, and the rest of their relatives - is beautifully researched and deeply moving, her account brought me to tears more than once...an important story'
'Exhaustively researched and sensitively written, The Gardener of Lashkar Gah is a first-class account of one family's struggle to survive the West's ill-fated and ultimately futile war in Afghanistan.'
Larisa Brown's storytelling is vivid and compelling, painting a powerful picture of the tragic plight of our Afghan allies. It is an essential story that will define the memory of British involvement in Afghanistan for generations to come.
"A brilliant, compelling book that chronicles the human stories behind military intervention in the Middle East and gives the heroes among the Afghan interpreters and other local partners of Western forces the place in history they deserve. A major addition to the history of our operations in the shadow of the Hindu Kush."
Sitting in the garden in Lash was one of the few places life felt almost normal in Helmand. The roses brought humanity to a harsh environment and a moment of peace in a brutal war. The family who made that space went mostly unnoticed to the soldiers who needed the oasis. Larisa has brought them to the fore and told a story that speaks of so many who served alongside us and who were left homeless by the withdrawal. This is a beautiful book which reminded me of the pain and hope we shared, and the courage and humanity of those we served alongside. In the years gone by I often wondered what happened to that garden and those who tended it. So much we left behind has been lost and trampled, knowing this family's struggles speaks of so many unknowns and unnamed.
In the best tradition of intelligent campaigning journalism, with sympathy and insight, Larisa Brown tells the story of one Afghan interpreter and his family abandoned by the British - how many more are there? She exposes the hypocrisy of successive governments that made promises to brave Afghans only to abandon them.
From gardens and guns on Afghan front lines to desks of major powers, this book reveals what it's like to live and die in war. A journalist's eye and an advocate's empathy illuminates the steep price paid by Afghans who sided with Britain.
A moving book [...] ably depicts the plight of those who opposed a brutal regime alongside Western forces and still await reprieve.
'Exhaustively researched and sensitively written, The Gardener of Lashkar Gah is a first-class account of one family's struggle to survive the West's ill-fated and ultimately futile war in Afghanistan.'
Larisa Brown's storytelling is vivid and compelling, painting a powerful picture of the tragic plight of our Afghan allies. It is an essential story that will define the memory of British involvement in Afghanistan for generations to come.
"A brilliant, compelling book that chronicles the human stories behind military intervention in the Middle East and gives the heroes among the Afghan interpreters and other local partners of Western forces the place in history they deserve. A major addition to the history of our operations in the shadow of the Hindu Kush."
Sitting in the garden in Lash was one of the few places life felt almost normal in Helmand. The roses brought humanity to a harsh environment and a moment of peace in a brutal war. The family who made that space went mostly unnoticed to the soldiers who needed the oasis. Larisa has brought them to the fore and told a story that speaks of so many who served alongside us and who were left homeless by the withdrawal. This is a beautiful book which reminded me of the pain and hope we shared, and the courage and humanity of those we served alongside. In the years gone by I often wondered what happened to that garden and those who tended it. So much we left behind has been lost and trampled, knowing this family's struggles speaks of so many unknowns and unnamed.
In the best tradition of intelligent campaigning journalism, with sympathy and insight, Larisa Brown tells the story of one Afghan interpreter and his family abandoned by the British - how many more are there? She exposes the hypocrisy of successive governments that made promises to brave Afghans only to abandon them.
From gardens and guns on Afghan front lines to desks of major powers, this book reveals what it's like to live and die in war. A journalist's eye and an advocate's empathy illuminates the steep price paid by Afghans who sided with Britain.
A moving book [...] ably depicts the plight of those who opposed a brutal regime alongside Western forces and still await reprieve.