| Title Statement |
To lose a war: the fall and rise of the Taliban / Jon Lee Anderson. |
| Author |
Anderson, Jon Lee |
| Additional Contributors |
Anderson, Jon Lee |
| Publication |
New York: Penguin Press,2025. |
| Edition |
Revised and updated edition. |
| Extent of Item |
xxiv, 371 pages |
| ISBN |
9780593493090 (hardcover) |
| Other Number |
pr07974198 |
| General Notes |
"First published in the United States of America as The Lion's Grave, by Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, Inc., in 2002"--Title page verso. |
| Contents |
A lion's death --The warlord --In the court of the pretender --The surrender --City of dreams --Holy and other warriors --Mullah Omar's favorite songs --The assassins --The man in the palace --The Americans' opium war --Day of the superwadi --Force and futility --Annals of assassination --An American way of killing (March 11, 2012) --The ballad of Mullah Omar (July 30, 2015) --Kunduz falls again (October 6, 2015) --The return of the Taliban (August 13, 2021) --The end of the American empire? (September 1, 2021) --After the fall. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"From one of the greatest foreign correspondents of our time, whose on-the-ground reporting from Afghanistan has shaped our understanding of the country and its fate, comes the complete accounting of the era from before 9/11 to the return of the Taliban to power in 2021"-- |
| Subjects & Genres |
| By Topic |
Afghan War, 2001-2021 |
| By Name |
Taliban |
| By Location |
Afghanistan--History--2001-2021 |
