Dimensions
159 x 240 x 55mm
The failure in Afghanistan has been devastating but even this word does not do this justice. Awash with arms and warlords and one of the biggest producers of heroin in the world, the terrorists that are being formed in this territory present a real and lasting threat to the peace of the Western world. Just as the whole of London and the UK was gearing up for the excitement of the London Olympics, the news headlines surrounding Christina Lamb's near fatal ambush and head-on encounter with Taliban forces, on a convoy mission in Helmand province where she genuinely believed that she might never see her son and husband again, filled the pages of the Sunday Times.
The reality of her experience and the truths that it revealed were an eye opener that no one was expecting. In the country that, for so long, has been billed the success story of the West by both Bush and Blair, a reconstruction mission that would go ahead, according to John Reid, "without a shot being fired" Afghanistan looks to become one of the most onerous and potentially devastating problems the Western world is going to have to face in the future.
Journalist Christina Lamb's incendiary, extensively researched and deeply affecting account of how we have arrived at today's desperate situation is set to become the definitive book on this troubled country.
Christina Lamb is one of Britain's leading foreign correspondents and has reported for London and Pakistan for over 20 years first visiting Afghanistan at the age of 19. She has unparalleled access to people on the ground and to top British Military officers and three para, the troops deployed in Helmand.
