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See the shame of a nation that was once mentioned in the Holy Bible and which the whole world bowed for with respect. Today, hateful criminals tear each other apart with no dignity or pride.

The story of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis, who became an international hero for his courage and selflessness. Ever since he was a young boy growing up on the streets of Staten Island, New York, Michael Ollis wanted to be a soldier. Inspired by his father, who fought in Vietnam, Mike’s...

General Frank McKenzie oversaw some of the most important—and controversial operations in modern US military history. McKenzie provides an honest assessment of his time in command-describing decisions that were sound, as well as some outcomes he wishes were different.

In 1958, Richard Nixon described Afghanistan as "unconquerable." On August 15, 2021, he was proven right. After twenty years of intervention, US and NATO forces retreated, enabling the Taliban to return to power. Tens of thousands were killed in the long, unwinnable war, and millions more were displaced—leaving the future of Afghanistan hanging in the balance. Leading expert Amin Saikal traces the full story of America's intervention, from 9/11 to the present crisis.

Bloomsbury presents Pride and Fall: The British Army in Afghanistan, 2001–2014 by Sergio Miller, read by Charles Armstrong. A detailed new account of the British military campaign in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014, based on the experiences of those who served. On 11 September 2001 19...

Gino Strada arriva quando tutti scappano, e mette in piedi ospedali di fortuna, spesso senza l'attrezzatura e le medicine necessarie, quando la guerra esplode nella sua lucida follia. Guerre che per lo più hanno un lungo strascico di sangue dopo la fine ufficiale dei conflitti: quando pastori, bambini e donne vengono dilaniati dalle tante mine antiuomo disseminate per le rotte della transumanza, o quando raccolgono strani oggetti lanciati dagli elicotteri sui loro villaggi. I vecchi afgani li chiamano pappagalli verdi.

Following the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq in 2003, the SAS launched one of the most intense and secretive operations in its history: Task Force Black. BBC journalist Mark Urban uncovers the sensational story of this operation and the extraordinary men who carried it out.

How long does it take to burn to death? This question raced through Sam Brown’s mind as he burned alive alongside a dirt road in Afghanistan. At 24, he was pursuing his lifelong ambition of serving in the US military when his vehicle detonated one of the Taliban’s bombs. Sam was desperate for death to end his pain. Instead, a fellow soldier extinguished the blaze. Sam’s life had been saved, but for what purpose?

From foot patrols, deadly enemy engagements, and sinister insider attacks to meals and conversations with the men of the Afghan Border Police, Izant's account confronts the gauntlet of violence and anguish that transformed a generation of American and Afghan warriors from idealist volunteers for a just war to disillusioned veterans of a lost cause.

From Time 100 honoree Saad Mohseni, the deeply moving and surprising story of the attempt to build a truly independent media company in contemporary Afghanistan. Saad Mohseni, chairman and CEO of Moby Group, Afghanistan’s largest media company, charts a twenty-year effort to bring a free press...

As a regional direct response Quick Reaction Force in the northern Sangin river valley of Helmand Province, the Marines are immediately put to the test, narrowly avoiding one calamity after the next. This untold story personalizes the broader themes of America's war in Afghanistan through the brutal experiences of a small Marine unit who volunteered to fight it.

Jocko Willink et Leif Babin ont été déployés sur le champ de bataille le plus violent et le plus dangereux d'Irak. En tant que responsables de l'unité Cogneur de l'équipe SEAL Trois, leur mission était impossible : reprendre la ville de Ramadi, bastion d'Al-Qaïda réputé "perdu". Après avoir quitté les équipes SEALs, ils ont créé une société, Echelon Front, pour enseigner ces mêmes principes dans le monde civil.

When America retreated from Kabul amid chaos in 2021, Lieutenant General Sami Sadat, the last commander of the army of the Afghan republic, was still fighting to the end. In this firsthand account, he reveals how his troops were starved of ammunition for two years before the final pullout, while America was glad-handing the Taliban.

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker “A book that is as deeply humane and profoundly rendered as any I’ve read about Afghanistan, or any other war.” —Elliot Ackerman, New York Times Book Review From one of the great foreign correspondents of our time, author of some of the...

Trigger Warning is a story of success, triumph, trauma and overcoming. This is the story of a former Special Operations Engineer as he worked relentlessly to rekindle his life after the war. Spoken in a light-hearted, raw and humorous warmth, Trigger Warning is Nathan's final chapter, before he begins his new life free from the pain and despair of his past. A story that displays the remarkable resilience of the human spirit, and that it's never too late to transform all that you are.

In diesem Buch schildert der Autor Christian Gerstner eindrucksvoll seine Erfahrungen aus 15 Jahren im KSK sowie seine Wandlung vom Soldaten zum Krieger. Er beschreibt ausführlich seine Auswahl und Ausbildung im KSK sowie das Leben in einer Kommandokompanie. Erstmalig schildert ein ehemaliger Kommandosoldat seine Erlebnisse im Kampf gegen die radikal-islamistischen Taliban in Afghanistan und den Islamischen Staat im Irak.

Es wird gezeigt, dass sowohl der Nationalsozialismus als auch der Kommunismus lediglich zwei Masken desselben Gesichts des dunklen Okkultismus sind, und ihre Gemeinsamkeiten in Denkweise sowie autoritären Kontrollmethoden werden beleuchtet. Darüber hinaus wird erläutert, in welcher Form diese heimtückischen okkulten Strömungen auch heute noch existieren, aktiv sind und eine ernsthafte Bedrohung für die Freiheit darstellen.

Bloomsbury presents The Afghans by Åsne Seierstad, read by Laila Pyne. A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "An astonishing feat of writing and reporting and one of the finest books written on Afghanistan in a generation." —Eliza Griswold, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Amity and Prosperity “A...

With a new century and a new enemy came a new kind of war: low intensity and civilian-dominated, blending austere rural and dense urban environments alike. Into this new kind of war, the American military launched two invasions against terrorist networks and military rivals, relying on airpower—close air support (CAS)—at a scale never before seen.

In 2006, the shock and awe campaign of securing the major cities had ended, and the Iraq War had moved into an alien phase for the operators of Black Flag One. With their motto “swift, silent, deadly,” the Marine operators of 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion were trained for unconventional warfare but they were tasked with holding and securing swathes of the country, facing Insurgents who were adapting their tactics to kill as many Coalition soldiers as possible using IEDs.