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041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780007432011 |
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International Standard Book Number |
9780007432028 |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
DS 371.412 .C69 2011 |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Cowper-Coles, Sherard, 1955-. |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Cables from Kabul : the inside story of the West’s Afghanistan campaign / Sherard Cowper-Cole. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Place of publication, distribution, etc |
London : HarperPress, 2011. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
xxiv, 312 p., [16] p. plates : col. ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
General note |
Includes bibliographical references. |
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General note |
“If you want to understand what really happened, you absolutely have to read this book |
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General note |
Johan Simpson”—cover page. |
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General note |
Contents: List of illustrations—Map of Afghanistan—Map of Kabul—Tribute to the fallen—Preface—Part I : beginnings—1. An offer I couldn’t reguse—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 : aginst 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—Acknowledgements—Abbreviations—Index. |
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650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Afghan War, 2001-. |
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Diplomatic and consular service, British – Afghanistan. |
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Great Britain – Foreign relations – Afghanistan. |
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Afghanistan – Foreign relations – Great Britain. |
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Afghanistan – Politics and government – 2001-. |
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
United States – Foreign relations – Afghanistan. |
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Afghanistan – Foreign relations – United States. |
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Afghan War, 2001- – United States. |
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Cowper-Coles, Sherard, 1955-. |
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