TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cowper-Coles, Sherard, 1955-.
TI  - Cables from Kabul : the inside story of the West’s Afghanistan campaign / Sherard Cowper-Cole
SN  - 9780007432011
U1  - DS 371.412 .C69  2011   
CY  - London : HarperPress, 2011.
KW  - Afghan War, 2001-.
KW  - Diplomatic and consular service, British – Afghanistan.
KW  - Great Britain – Foreign relations – Afghanistan.
KW  - Afghanistan – Foreign relations – Great Britain.
KW  - Afghanistan – Politics and government – 2001-.
KW  - United States – Foreign relations – Afghanistan.
KW  - Afghanistan – Foreign relations – United States.
KW  - Afghan War, 2001- – United States.
KW  - Cowper-Coles, Sherard, 1955-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; “If you want to understand what really happened, you absolutely have to read this book;  Johan Simpson”—cover page; 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
ER  -