August in Kabul : America's last days in Afghanistan / Andrew Quilty.
Publication details: Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2022.Description: xii, 292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 0522878768
- 9780522878769
- Taliban -- Afghanistan
- Taliban
- 2000-2099
- Military relations
- Disengagement (Military science)
- Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives
- War correspondents -- Afghanistan -- Biography
- Journalists -- Australia -- Biography
- War correspondents -- Australia -- Biography
- Journalists -- Afghanistan -- Biography
- Armed Forces
- Taliban
- Afghan War, 2001-2021
- Afghanistan -- Kabul
- United States -- Military relations -- Afghanistan
- Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 2001-
- Kabul (Afghanistan) -- History -- 21st century
- Afghanistan -- History -- 2021-
- Afghanistan
- United States
- United States -- Armed forces -- Afghanistan
- 21st Century history (Australia,Afghanistan)
- Terrorism, revolutions, coups (Australia,Afghanistan)
- Military history (Australia,Afghanistan)
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 958.104 QUI | Available | 071400 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. After a 20-year conflict with the United States, its Western allies and a proxy Afghan government, the Islamic militant group once aligned with al Qaeda was about to bury yet another foreign foe in the graveyard of empires. And for America, the superpower, this was yet another foreign disaster. As cities and towns fell to the Taliban in rapid succession, Western troops and embassy staff scrambled to flee a country of which they had lost control. To the world, Kabul in August looked like Saigon in 1975. August in Kabul is the story of how America's longest mission came to an abrupt and humiliating end, told through the eyes of Afghans whose lives have been turned upside down- a young woman who harbours dreams of a university education; a presidential staffer who works desperately to hold things together as the government collapses around him; a prisoner in the notorious Bagram Prison who suddenly finds himself free when prison guards abandon their post.