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"In this electrifying first-person account, journalist and author Kevin Sites goes deep into the geopolitical morass of Afghanistan to emerge with critical insights into both a people and a war that few truly comprehend."--Page 4 of cover.
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Swimming with warlords: a dozen-year journey across the Afghan War
2014, Harper Perennial
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Swimming with Warlords: A Dozen-Year Journey Across the Afghan War
2014, HarperCollins Publishers
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Table of Contents
Prologue : entrance
Part I. The north. Over the border
Civil war
The House of Massoud
The ghosts of Kalakata
Sticks and stones
The warlord and the Taliban
Kurash
Hindu Kush
Part II. Kabul. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow
Fixers
Lions
Unintended consequences
Under the bridge
Wall of bones
More than war
Women
Lawyers, guns, and money
Part III. Jalalabad and Tora Bora. The road
Addiction affliction
Tora Bora runaround
Dead man's bed and other mysteries
Part IV. Wardak and Logar. Human terrain teams
Targets
Combat outpost Soltan Kheyl
Part V. The last embed. Suicide vest
Epilogue : exit
Afterword : America's post 9/11 legacy in shambles.
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