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Cables from Kabul : The Inside Story of the West's Afghanistan Campaign

by Sherard Cowper-Coles
$6.90
Cables from Kabul : The Inside Story of the West's Afghanistan Campaign - Thryft
Cables from Kabul : The Inside Story of the West's Afghanistan Campaign - Thryft
  • J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography Nominee (2012)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Cables from Kabul : The Inside Story of the West's Afghanistan Campaign

by Sherard Cowper-Coles
$6.90
ISBN: 9780007432042
Authors: Sherard Cowper-Coles
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date of Publication: 2012-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Politics, Biographies & Memoirs, History
Related Topics: History, Biography, Politics, Biography, Politics, War
Goodreads rating: 3.7
(rated by 201 readers)

Description

A frank and honest memoir by Britain's former ambassador to Kabul which provides a unique, high-level insight into Western policy in Afghanistan. The West's mission in Afghanistan has never been far from the headlines. For Sherard Cowper-Coles, the former Ambassador, Britain's role in the conflict - the vast amount of money being spent and the huge number of lives being lost - was an everyday reality. In Cables from Kabul, Cowper-Coles takes the reader on a journey through the backstreets of Afghanistan's capital to the corridors of power in London and Washington. He pays tribute to the tactical successes of our soldiers but asks whether these will be enough to secure stability. Nobody is better placed to tell this story of embassy life in one of the most dangerous places on earth. Powerful and astonishingly frank, Cables from Kabul explains how Great Britain got into the quagmire of Afghanistan, and how Great Britain can get out of it.
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Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.