Larisa Brown

Gebundenes Buch

The Gardener of Lashkar Gah

The Afghans Who Risked Everything to Fight the Taliban

Beschreibung

"Beautifully researched and deeply moving, [this book] brought me to tears more than once" - John Simpson, The Guardian "First-class...exhaustively researched and sensitively written" - The Times From the journalist who investigated the shocking 2022 Afghan data breach, the extraordinary true story of the ordinary Afghans during the end of the 'War on Terror'. The sudden withdrawal of British and American troops from Afghanistan in 2021, ended the 20 year war on terror, yet it also left Afghanistan to be reconquered by the Taliban. As violence and religious fundamentalism once again overwhelmed the region, thousands of Afghans who loyally served the British and American armies were left behind. This is the story of what happened to them when the West left. The Gardener of Lashkar Gah follows the extraordinary journey of Shaista Gul, a kind former-policeman who built a beautiful garden inside a military base that became famous as a calm oasis for soldiers with troubled minds. Other members of his family worked for the allies, including his son Jamal, who became an interpreter for the British Army when he was just a teenager. Following the chaotic withdrawal of allied troops, a suicide bombing at Kabul airport and a desperate scramble to re-unite loved ones and evacuate the region, all members of the family suffered. Larisa Brown - Defence Editor for The Times, award-winning journalist and a campaigner for the interpreters of Afghanistan - has spent hundreds of hours talking to members of the Gul family and others across the region in order to tell their remarkable stories. In heart-warming and beautifully human prose, she unspools a tale of courage, hope and sacrifice - with the hopes and dreams of the family counterpointed against the violence, anger and chaos raging in Afghanistan at the time.

Autor

Larisa Brown is a multi-award winning journalist and Defence Editor of The Times. She has many years of experience reporting from conflict zones around the world, including Syria, Libya and Afghanistan. Prior to joining The Times Larisa was Defence and Security Editor at the Daily Mail where she spearheaded the newspaper's much praised Betrayal of the Brave campaign. It fought for interpreters who helped fight the Taliban to be given sanctuary in Britain and won Campaign of the Year at the British Journalism Awards 2018.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9781399411028
• ISBN-10: 1399411020
• Artikelnr.: 67264240

Rezensionen

'[Larisa Brown's] account of what happened to one particular family – the father, who used to tend the gardens in a British compound at Lashkar Gah base, his son who worked with British soldiers as an interpreter, and the rest of their relatives – is beautifully researched and deeply moving, her account brought me to tears more than once...an important story'