Escape from Kabul is a harrowing true story of Operation Pitting and the Kabul airlift, told with lucid flair by Wood and Jones. It is an essential contribution to the historical record, capturing the human cost of America's deal with the Taliban.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 01 August 2024
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

An important account of one of the defining moments of the modern world, PETER FRANKOPAN's "Escape from Kabul" is a must-read for military historians and anyone interested in modern warfare and politics. With stunning first-hand accounts from those who planned the trans-continental rescue, the young soldiers who faced the daunting task of keeping a crowd of thousands of desperate people at bay, and former interpreters and soldiers of the Afghan Special Forces who made it out, "Escape from Kabul" is the harrowing true story of Operation Pitting and the Kabul airlift. ------ Sophy Roberts, author of "The Last Days of the Romanovs" "Escape from Kabul" is an essential contribution to the historical record, told with lucid flair and a deep understanding of the events that unfolded. ------

An important account of one of the defining moments of the modern world

PETER FRANKOPAN

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The evacuation of Kabul in August 2021 will go down in military history as one of the most unexpected events in modern times.

In an eerie replay of the disastrous British retreat from Kabul in 1842,

coalition troops withdrew from Afghanistan after twenty years of military campaigning.

The subsequent collapse of the Afghan government and its army shocked the world,

as a resurgent Taliban gathered its forces and swept across the country.

Thousands of Afghans who had worked with the allies were left to the meagre mercy of the Taliban.

As the Taliban went door to door to execute collaborators,

a small international task force set out on a daring mission to evacuate as many Afghans and their families as possible.

Drawing on a wide range of first-hand accounts - the politicians and officers who planned the trans-continental rescue,

the young soldiers who were faced with the daunting task of keeping a crowd of thousands of desperate people at bay,

former interpreters and soldiers of the Afghan Special Forces who made it out -

Escape from Kabul

is the harrowing true story of Operation Pitting and the Kabul airlift.

------

An essential contribution to the historical record,

told with lucid flair

- Sophy Roberts

A compelling account of one of

An important account of one of the defining moments of the modern world,

PETER FRANKOPAN's

Escape from Kabul

is a must-read for military historians and anyone interested in modern warfare and politics.

With stunning first-hand accounts from those who planned the trans-continental rescue,

the young soldiers who faced the daunting task of keeping a crowd of thousands of desperate people at bay,

and former interpreters and soldiers of the Afghan Special Forces who made it out,

Escape from Kabul

is the harrowing true story of Operation Pitting and the Kabul airlift.

------

Sophy Roberts, author of

The Last Days of the Romanovs

Escape from Kabul

is an essential contribution to the historical record,

told with lucid flair

and a deep understanding of the events that unfolded.

------

Weight: 284g
Dimension: 128 x 197 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399718158