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The Lion's Grave

Dispatches from Afghanistan

By Jon Lee Anderson

Paperback | 9781843541189

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New Yorker staff writer Jon Lee Anderson arrived in Afghanistan to report for the magazine ten days before U.S. bombers began pounding Al Qaeda and Taliban forces. His dispatches provide an unprecedented and riveting on-the-ground account of the Afghan conflict, and his e-mails to the magazine —Continue

New Yorker staff writer Jon Lee Anderson arrived in Afghanistan to report for the magazine ten days before U.S. bombers began pounding Al Qaeda and Taliban forces. His dispatches provide an unprecedented and riveting on-the-ground account of the Afghan conflict, and his e-mails to the magazine — selections of which frame the pieces here — paint a vivid behind-the-scenes portrait of war journalism. From the battle for the Taliban bastion of Kunduz and the interim government's clumsy takeover of Kabul, to the search for Osama bin Laden in the Tora Bora caves and the truth of Al Qaeda's assassination of charismatic Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud — two days before September 11, 2001 — Anderson offers an unprecedented look into the forces that shape the conflict and the players who may threaten Afghanistan's future. In the distinguished tradition of New Yorker war reporting, The Lion's Grave illuminates a region to which we will be inextricably bound for some time to come.

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  • The flame still flickers

    The Lion's Grave by Jon Lee Anderson 244pp, Atlantic, £7.99 The Sewing Circles of Herat by Christina Lamb 388pp, HarperCollins, £16.99 Jon Lee Anderson and Christina Lamb both set boot in Afghanistan in the 1980s before the Soviet withdrawal. He had ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • The Lion's Grave By Jon Lee Anderson

    On September 9, 2001, two suicidal Arabs posing as journalists murdered Ahmed Shah Massoud, the brilliant strategist of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. Two days later, Al Qaeda operatives flew hijacked planes into the World Trade C ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Wed, 15 Sep 2010

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Paperback 224 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1843541181
  • ISBN-13: 9781843541189
  • Publisher: Atlantic Books
  • Pub date: Nov 26, 2002
  • Dimensions: 200 mm x 130 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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