Worse than a Defeat
James Meek: Shamed in Afghanistan, 18 December 2014
The Good War: Why We Couldn’t Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan
by Jack Fairweather.
Cape, 488 pp., £20, December 2014,978 0 224 09736 9 Show More
by Jack Fairweather.
Cape, 488 pp., £20, December 2014,
Investment in Blood: The True Cost of Britain’s Afghan War
by Frank Ledwidge.
Yale, 287 pp., £10.99, July 2014,978 0 300 20526 8 Show More
by Frank Ledwidge.
Yale, 287 pp., £10.99, July 2014,
British Generals in Blair’s Wars
edited by Jonathan Bailey, Richard Iron and Hew Strachan.
Ashgate, 404 pp., £19.95, August 2013,978 1 4094 3736 9 Show More
edited by Jonathan Bailey, Richard Iron and Hew Strachan.
Ashgate, 404 pp., £19.95, August 2013,
An Intimate War: An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict 1978-2012
by Mike Martin.
Hurst, 389 pp., £25, April 2014,978 1 84904 336 6 Show More
by Mike Martin.
Hurst, 389 pp., £25, April 2014,
“... of victory amounted to an instruction to the British public to forget about Afghanistan,’ Jack Fairweather writes in his powerful history of the war. The instruction was, it seems, hardly needed. The fall of Musa Qala in 2013, ‘once the focus of the British military’s anxiety about their standing in the world, barely registered in the ... ”
