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UK-LoPHL |
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20240612141050.0 |
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220725s2021 xxuabf b |0|1 0|eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2021016683 |
| 015 ## - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER |
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| National bibliography number |
GBC1C6971 |
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bnb |
| 016 7# - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC AGENCY CONTROL NUMBER |
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| Record control number |
020282083 |
| Source |
Uk |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781982159009 |
| Qualifying information |
hardback |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781982159023 |
| Qualifying information |
ebook |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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StDuBDS |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
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StDuBDS |
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Uk |
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UK-LoPHL |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
958.1047 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Whitlock, Craig, |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
125359 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The Afghanistan papers : |
| Remainder of title |
a secret history of the war / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Craig Whitlock. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Simon & Schuster, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2021. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xx, 346 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : |
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illustrations (some colour), maps (black and white) |
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text |
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rdacontent |
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still image |
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rdacontent |
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cartographic image |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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unmediated |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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volume |
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rdacarrier |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
I. A false taste of victory, 2001-2002 -- A muddled mission -- "Who are the bad guys?" -- The nation-building project -- II. The great distraction -- Afghanistan becomes an afterthought -- Raising an army from the ashes -- Islam for dummies -- Playing both sides -- III. The Taliban comes back, 2006-2008 -- Lies and spin -- An incoherent strategy -- The warlords -- The war on opium -- IV. Obama's overreach, 2009-2010 -- Doubling down -- "A dark pit of endless money" -- From friend to foe -- Consumed by corruption -- V. Things fall apart, 2011-2016 -- At war with the truth -- The enemy within -- The grand illusion -- VI. Stalemate, 2017-2021 -- Trump's turn -- The narco-state -- Talking with the Taliban. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of 9/11. Yet soon after the United States and its allies removed the Taliban from power, the mission veered off course and US officials lost sight of their original objectives. Distracted by the war in Iraq, the US military become mired in an unwinnable guerrilla conflict in a country it did not understand. But no president wanted to admit failure, especially in a war that began as a just cause. Instead, the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations sent more and more troops to Afghanistan and repeatedly said they were making progress, even though they knew there was no realistic prospect for an outright victory. Just as the Pentagon Papers changed the public’s understanding of Vietnam, The Afghanistan Papers contains “fast-paced and vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) revelation after revelation from people who played a direct role in the war from leaders in the White House and the Pentagon to soldiers and aid workers on the front lines. In unvarnished language, they admit that the US government’s strategies were a mess, that the nation-building project was a colossal failure, and that drugs and corruption gained a stranglehold over their allies in the Afghan government. All told, the account is based on interviews with more than 1,000 people who knew that the US government was presenting a distorted, and sometimes entirely fabricated, version of the facts on the ground. Documents unearthed by The Washington Post reveal that President Bush didn’t know the name of his Afghanistan war commander—and didn’t want to meet with him. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld admitted that he had “no visibility into who the bad guys are.” His successor, Robert Gates, said: “We didn’t know jack shit about al-Qaeda.” The Afghanistan Papers is a “searing indictment of the deceit, blunders, and hubris of senior military and civilian officials” (Tom Bowman, NRP Pentagon Correspondent) that will supercharge a long-overdue reckoning over what went wrong and forever change the way the conflict is remembered."-- |
| Assigning source |
Taken from Simon & Schuster site. |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Afghanistan-Papers/Craig-Whitlock/9781982159009">https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Afghanistan-Papers/Craig-Whitlock/9781982159009</a> |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Afghan War, 2001-2021 |
| 9 (RLIN) |
54953 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Suppress in OPAC |
Do not suppress in OPAC |
| Koha item type |
Book |