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Author:

Fritz, Ian, 1990- author.

Title:

What the Taliban told me / Ian Fritz.

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

288 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm

Notes:

A memoir of Ian Fritz, a young Air Force cryptologic linguist from 2008 to 2013. This is the story of his coming-of-age during the Afghan War, and a reckoning with our twenty years of war in Afghanistan.

Contents:

Listen -- Flying, or the valley of death -- Before, or how to become a linguist -- Sapir-Whorf, or next to my heart -- Pashto, or experienced linguists -- Bullshit, or you'll only die tired -- Threats, or it's too cold to jihad -- Griffin, or you keep flying -- How, or you look like more of a man -- Kandahar, or listening to Afghans -- Fear, or you can't go home again -- Anger, or you can't kill an idea -- Infinity, or what I wish I hadn't head -- Tinnitus, or you seem fine now -- Reaping, or fuck 'em -- After, or you can't unkill them.

ISBN:

1668010690
9781668010693

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1407119057

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

UJPE911 -- Norwalk Easter Public Library (Norwalk)