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Escape from Kabul

Levison Wood, Geraint Jones

From Shelf: Official Indie Non-Fiction Bestsellers (week 11, 2023)

Afghanistan, August 2021. As the clock ticks down to a total Allied withdrawal and the Taliban go door to door to execute 'collaborators', a small, semi-official force of allied Paratroopers and Marines set about evacuating as many Afghans and their families as possible.

'An important account of one of the defining moments of the modern world' PETER FRANKOPANThe 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.

Format:
Hardback
Pages:
368
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN:
9781399718127
Published Date:
16/3/2023
Dimensions:
234mm x 170mm x 36mm
Weight:
631g
Category:
Military history: post WW2 conflicts

RRP: £25

Format: Hardback

ISBN: 9781399718127


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