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| Автор: Chandrasekaran Rajiv
Название: Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan
ISBN: 0307947041 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307947048
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 974 р.
Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A New York Times Notable Book
The author of the acclaimed bestseller and National Book Award finalist, Imperial Life in the Emerald City, tells the startling, behind-the-scenes story of the US's political and military misadventure in Afghanistan. In this meticulously reported and illuminating book, Rajiv Chandrasekaran focuses on southern Afghanistan in the year of President Obama's surge, and reveals the epic tug of war that occurred between the president and a military that increasingly went its own way. The profound ramifications this political battle had on the region and the world are laid bare through a cast of fascinating characters--disillusioned and inept diplomats, frustrated soldiers, headstrong officers--who played a part in the process of pumping American money and soldiers into Afghan nation-building. What emerges in Little America is a detailed picture of unsavory compromise--warlords who were to be marginalized suddenly embraced, the Karzai family transformed from foe to friend, fighting corruption no longer a top priority--and a venture that became politically, financially, and strategically unsustainable. Also:
A Washington Post Notable Book
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of the Year | в Мои желания |
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| Автор: Chandrasekaran Rajiv
Название: Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan
ISBN: 0307989178 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307989178
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 2434 р.
Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the award-winning author of "Imperial Life in the Emerald City, " a riveting, intimate account of America's troubled war in Afghanistan.
When President Barack Obama ordered the surge of troops and aid to Afghanistan, "Washington Post" correspondent Rajiv Chandrasekaran followed. He found the effort sabotaged not only by Afghan and Pakistani malfeasance but by infighting and incompetence within the American government: a war cabinet arrested by vicious bickering among top national security aides; diplomats and aid workers who failed to deliver on their grand promises; generals who dispatched troops to the wrong places; and headstrong military leaders who sought a far more expansive campaign than the White House wanted. Through their bungling and quarreling, they wound up squandering the first year of the surge.
Chandrasekaran explains how the United States has never understood Afghanistan--and probably never will. During the Cold War, American engineers undertook a massive development project across southern Afghanistan in an attempt to woo the country from Soviet influence. They built dams and irrigation canals, and they established a comfortable residential community known as Little America, with a Western-style school, a coed community pool, and a plush clubhouse--all of which embodied American and Afghan hopes for a bright future and a close relationship. But in the late 1970s--after growing Afghan resistance and a Communist coup--the Americans abandoned the region to warlords and poppy farmers.
In one revelatory scene after another, Chandrasekaran follows American efforts to reclaim the very same territory from the Taliban. Along the way, we meet an Army general whose experience as the top military officer in charge of Iraq's Green Zone couldn't prepare him for the bureaucratic knots of Afghanistan, a Marine commander whose desire to charge into remote hamlets conflicted with civilian priorities, and a war-seasoned diplomat frustrated in his push for a scaled-down but long-term American commitment. Their struggles show how Obama's hope of a good war, and the Pentagon's desire for a resounding victory, shriveled on the arid plains of southern Afghanistan.
Meticulously reported, hugely revealing, "Little America "is an unprecedented examination of a failing war--and an eye-opening look at the complex relationship between America and Afghanistan. "From the Hardcover edition." | в Мои желания |
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| Автор: Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Название: Little America
ISBN: 1408831201 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408831205
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Цена: 757 р.
Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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| Автор: Chandrasekaran
Название: Imperial Life in the Emerald City
ISBN: 1400044871 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400044870
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1579 р.
Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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| Автор: Chandrasekaran, Rajiv
Название: Imperial Lfe in the Emerald City
ISBN: 0747592896 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780747592891
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Цена: 925 р.
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Описание: From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein`s regime. This work tells the story of this ill-prepared attempt to build American democracy in a war-torn Middle Eastern country. | в Мои желания |
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| Автор: Chandrasekaran, Rajiv
Название: Imperial life in the emerald city
ISBN: 0747591687 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780747591689
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Цена: 1093 р.
Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Drawing on several interviews and internal documents, this book tells the story of an attempt to build American democracy in a war-torn Middle Eastern country, detailing the risky disbanding of the Iraqi army and the ludicrous attempt to train the new police force, and bringing to light a host of lesser-known yet typical travesties. | в Мои желания |
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| Автор: Chandrasekaran, Rajiv
Название: Imperial Life in the Emerald City
ISBN: 0307278832 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307278838
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 971 р.
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A National Book Award Finalist and New York Times Bestseller The Green Zone, Baghdad, Iraq, 2003: in this walled-off compound of swimming pools and luxurious amenities, Paul Bremer and his Coalition Provisional Authority set out to fashion a new, democratic Iraq. Staffed by idealistic aides chosen primarily for their views on issues such as abortion and capital punishment, the CPA spent the crucial first year of occupation pursuing goals that had little to do with the immediate needs of a postwar nation: flat taxes instead of electricity and deregulated health care instead of emergency medical supplies. In this acclaimed firsthand account, the former Baghdad bureau chief of The Washington Post gives us an intimate portrait of life inside this Oz-like bubble, which continued unaffected by the growing mayhem outside. This is a quietly devastating tale of imperial folly, and the definitive history of those early days when things went irrevocably wrong in Iraq. | в Мои желания |
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| Автор: Hely Steve, Chandrasekaran Vali
Название: The Ridiculous Race: 26,000 Miles, 2 Guys, 1 Globe, No Airplanes
ISBN: 0805087400 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780805087406
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
Цена: 987 р.
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Описание: The most absurd, hilarious, and ridiculous travelogue ever told, by two hit-TV comedy writers who raced each other around the world--for bragging rights and a very expensive bottle of Scotch It started as a friendly wager: two old friends from The Harvard Lampoon, Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran now hotshot Hollywood scribes, challenged each other to a race around the globe in opposite directions. There was only one rule: no airplanes. The first man to cross every line of longitude and arrive back in L.A. would win Scotch and infamy. But little did one racer know that the other planned to cheat him out of the big prize by way of a ride on a quarter-million-dollar jet pack. What follows is a pair of hilarious, hazardous, and eye-opening journeys into the farthest corners of the world. From the West Bank to the Aleutian Islands, the slums of Rio to the steppes of Mongolia, traveling by ocean freighter and the Trans-Siberian Railway (pranking each other mercilessly along the way), Vali and Steve plunge eagerly and ill-prepared into global adventure. The Ridiculous Race is a comic travelogue unlike any other, an outrageous tale of two gentlemen travelers who can't wait to don baggy cardigan sweaters, clench corncob pipes between their teeth, and yell at their sons, "You lazy bums When we were your age, we raced around the world without airplanes " | в Мои желания |
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| Автор: Chandrasekaran Rajiv
Название: Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan
ISBN: 0307957144 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307957146
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1701 р.
Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the award-winning author of "Imperial Life in the Emerald City, " a riveting, intimate account of America's troubled war in Afghanistan.
When President Barack Obama ordered the surge of troops and aid to Afghanistan, "Washington Post" correspondent Rajiv Chandrasekaran followed. He found the effort sabotaged not only by Afghan and Pakistani malfeasance but by infighting and incompetence within the American government: a war cabinet arrested by vicious bickering among top national security aides; diplomats and aid workers who failed to deliver on their grand promises; generals who dispatched troops to the wrong places; and headstrong military leaders who sought a far more expansive campaign than the White House wanted. Through their bungling and quarreling, they wound up squandering the first year of the surge.
Chandrasekaran explains how the United States has never understood Afghanistan--and probably never will. During the Cold War, American engineers undertook a massive development project across southern Afghanistan in an attempt to woo the country from Soviet influence. They built dams and irrigation canals, and they established a comfortable residential community known as Little America, with a Western-style school, a coed community pool, and a plush clubhouse--all of which embodied American and Afghan hopes for a bright future and a close relationship. But in the late 1970s--after growing Afghan resistance and a Communist coup--the Americans abandoned the region to warlords and poppy farmers.
In one revelatory scene after another, Chandrasekaran follows American efforts to reclaim the very same territory from the Taliban. Along the way, we meet an Army general whose experience as the top military officer in charge of Iraq's Green Zone couldn't prepare him for the bureaucratic knots of Afghanistan, a Marine commander whose desire to charge into remote hamlets conflicted with civilian priorities, and a war-seasoned diplomat frustrated in his push for a scaled-down but long-term American commitment. Their struggles show how Obama's hope of a good war, and the Pentagon's desire for a resounding victory, shriveled on the arid plains of southern Afghanistan.
Meticulously reported, hugely revealing, "Little America "is an unprecedented examination of a failing war--and an eye-opening look at the complex relationship between America and Afghanistan. | в Мои желания |
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