Title:
Cables from Kabul : the inside story of the West's Afghanistan campaign
Author:
Cowper-Coles, Sherard, 1955-
ISBN:
9780007432042
Personal Author:
Edition:
HarperPress paperback ed.
Publication Information:
London : HarperPress, 2012, c2011.
Physical Description:
xxvi, 323 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 20 cm.
Contents:
Part I : Beginnings -- 1. An offer I couldn't refuse -- 2. First impressions -- 3. Helmandshire -- 4. "A marathon rather than a sprint" -- 5. Breather break -- Part II : Hope over experience -- 6. A king's funeral -- 7. The spreading virus -- 8. The great game- round four -- 9. Hooked on drugs -- 10. Coping in Kabul -- 11. Highland fling: Karzai in Scotland -- 12. Mr. Brown comes to town - - Part III : Against an ebbing tide -- 13. Reversal of fortune -- 14. "We are winning- only it doesn't feel like it" -- 15. The Karzai conundrum -- 16. Cracking on in Helmand -- 17. Afghan attitudes -- 18. Waiting for Obama - - Part IV : Tactics without strategy : One last heave -- 19. Biden and beyond -- 20. Au revoir Afghanistan -- 21. Richard Holbrooke's flying circus -- 22. Where's Dick? -- Part V : Recessional -- 23. Embassy encore -- 24. Untying the knot -- 25. Three lessons learned -- 26. Back to the future.
Abstract:
A frank and honest memoir by Britain's former ambassador to Kabul which provides a unique, high-level insight into Western policy in Afghanistan. -- From publisher description.
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