A kingdom of their own : The family Karzai and the Afghan disaster
by Partlow, Joshua.
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BookPublisher: London : Simon & Schuster, 2016Description: 350 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781471129346 (hbk.) :; 1471129349 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 958.1047 PARSubject(s): Karzai, Hamid, 1957- -- Family | Karzai family | Families -- Political aspects -- Afghanistan | Afghanistan -- History -- 2001- | Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 2001- | History | HistorySummary: The United States came to Afghanistan on a simple mission: to avenge the September 11 attacks and drive the Taliban from power. This took less than two months. The story of the next decade is about how the ensuing fight for power and money - the power and money supplied to one of the poorest nations on earth in ever-greater amounts - left the region even more dangerous than before the first troops arrived. At the centre of this story is the Karzai family. The president and his brothers began the war as symbols of a new Afghanistan - moderate, educated, fluent with East and West - the antithesis of the brutish and backwards Taliban regime. Now, with the war in shambles, they are in open conflict with each other and their Western allies.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Book - Adult Hardback | Southport Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 958.1047 PAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 002934086X |
The United States came to Afghanistan on a simple mission: to avenge the September 11 attacks and drive the Taliban from power. This took less than two months. The story of the next decade is about how the ensuing fight for power and money - the power and money supplied to one of the poorest nations on earth in ever-greater amounts - left the region even more dangerous than before the first troops arrived. At the centre of this story is the Karzai family. The president and his brothers began the war as symbols of a new Afghanistan - moderate, educated, fluent with East and West - the antithesis of the brutish and backwards Taliban regime. Now, with the war in shambles, they are in open conflict with each other and their Western allies.
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