Twenty years : hope, war, and the betrayal of an Afghan generation

Rasmussen, Sune Engel, 1984- author.

Book 2024

"An intimate history of the Afghan war -- and the young Afghans whose dreams it enabled and dashed. No country was more deeply affected by 9/11 than Afghanistan: an entire generation grew up amid the upheaval that began that day. Young Afghans knew the promise of freedom, democracy, and safety, fought with each other over its meaning -- and then witnessed its collapse. In Twenty Years, the Wall Street Journal correspondent Sune Engel Rasmussen dr...

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