The Dust of Kandahar

The Dust of Kandahar
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Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9781682470800
ISBN-13 : 1682470806
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Book Synopsis The Dust of Kandahar by : Jonathan Addleton

Download or read book The Dust of Kandahar written by Jonathan Addleton and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dust of Kandahar provides a personal account of one diplomat’s year of service in America’s longest war. Ambassador Addleton movingly describes the everyday human drama of the American soldiers, local tribal dignitaries, government officials, and religious leaders he interacted and worked with in southern Afghanistan. Addleton’s writing is at its most vivid in his firsthand account of the April 2013 suicide bombing outside a Zabul school that killed his translator, a fellow Foreign Service officer, and three American soldiers. The memory of this tragedy lingers over Addleton’s journal entries, his prose offering poignant glimpses into the interior life of a U.S. diplomat stationed in harm’s way.


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