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No Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal (Hardback, 2014)

In the popular imagination, Afghanistan is often regarded as the site of intractable conflict, the American war against the Taliban a perpetually hopeless quagmire. But as Anand Gopal demonstrates in this stunning chronicle, top Taliban leaders were in fact ready to surrender within months of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, reuncing all political activity and submitting to the new government. Effectively, the Taliban ceased to exist - yet the American forces were t ready to accept such a turnaround. Driven by false intelligence from corrupt warlords and by a misguided conviction that Taliban members could never change sides, the U.S. instead continued to press the conflict, resurrecting the insurgency that persists to this day. Gopal's dramatic narrative, full of vivid personal detail, follows three Afghans through years of U.S. missteps: a Taliban commander, a U.S.-backed warlord, and a housewife trapped in the middle of the fighting. With its intimate accounts of life in small Afghan villages, and harrowing tales of crimes committed by Taliban leaders and American-supported provincial officials alike, No Good Men Among the Living lays bare the workings of America's longest war and the truth behind its prolonged agony. A thoroughly original expose of the conflict that is still being fought, it shows just how the American intervention went so desperately wrong.

Place of Publication
New York
Content Note
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Author Biography
Anand Gopal has served as an Afghanistan correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and The Christian Science Monitor, and has reported on the Middle East and South Asia for Harper's,The Nation,The New Republic,Foreign Policy, and other publications. Gopal is a fellow at the New America Foundation.
Out-Of-Print Date
02/07/2016
Date of Publication
29/05/2014
Country of Publication
United States

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