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04525aam a2200469 i 4500 001 4A190570D21911EEBD06BE2522ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240223010033 008 240222t20232023enkaf b 001 0deng d 020 $a 1399411020 020 $a 9781399411028 035 $a (OCoLC)1388642579 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCQ $d OCLCL $d AU@ $d NZAUC $d OCLCO $d JQM $d SILO 043 $a a-af--- 082 04 $a 958.1047 $2 23 084 $a 958.1047 $b BRO 100 1 $a Brown, Larisa, $e author. 245 14 $a The gardener of Lashkar Gah $h [Book] : $b a true story of the Afghans who risked everything to fight the Taliban / $c by Larisa Brown. 246 34 $a The gardener of Lashkar Gah : $b the Afghans who risked everything to fight the Taliban 264 1 $a London : $b Bloomsbury Continuum, $c 2023. 300 $a xii, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (color) ; $c 25 cm. 365 $a 01 $b 35.00 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Behind the wire: Lashkar Gah, December 2009 -- Preparing for battle: Camp Bastion, Christmas day 2009 -- Taking bullets: Nad Ali, February 2010 -- The prison: Camp Bastion, 2014 -- A proposal: Lashkar Gah, January 2015 -- Taliban revenge: Coventry, November 2015 -- The ultimate price: Lashkar Gah, 2019 -- Behind bars: Lashkar Gah, August 2021 -- Journey to Kabul: Lashkar Gah, Monday, 23-Tuesday, 24 August 2021 -- Hell on Earth: Kabul, Tuesday, 24-Thursday, 26 August 2021 -- Escape from Afghanistan: Kabul to Pakistan, Saturday, 28 August-Wednesday, 13 October 2021 -- Left behind: Lashkar Gah, October 2021 -- The hotel: Crewe, October 2021 -- The smugglers' route: Lashkar Gah to Pakistan, November-December 2021 -- Enduring pain: Scotland, 25 July 2022. 520 $a "The 20-year war fought by the US and its allies in Afghanistan is the longest war of the 21st century. It brought opportunity and tragedy for those who were forced to live through it. The abrupt withdrawal of British and American troops in 2021, in what may come to be regarded as one of the worst foreign policy failures of the past hundred years, precipitated the swift recapture of the country by the Taliban. With the withdrawal came upheaval and torment for Afghans who had loyally served alongside NATO forces and were left to fend for themselves at the gates of Kabul airport. This is the story of one such family. The Gardener of Lashkar Gah follows the extraordinary journey of Shaista Gul, a kind man who built a beautiful garden inside a British military base in Helmand Province that became famous as a calm oasis for soldiers with troubled minds. Other members of his family worked for the allies, including his son Jamal, who became an interpreter for the British Army when he was just a teenager. Following the chaotic withdrawal of allied troops, all members of the family suffered. Larisa Brown, Defence Editor for The Times, award-winning journalist and a campaigner for the interpreters of Afghanistan, has spent hundreds of hours talking to members of the Gul family and others in order to tell their remarkable story. In heart-warming and beautifully human prose, she unspools a tale of courage, hope and sacrifice, with the beauty of the garden and the hopes and dreams of the family counterpointed against the violence, anger and chaos raging in Afghanistan at the time. The scandalous betrayal of many of the interpreters and others who worked for the British and American armies is still being revealed. By telling one family's bittersweet experience, The Gardener of Lashkar Gah provides a unique and powerful insight into the devastating effects on ordinary Afghans of the end of the disastrous 'War on Terror'"--Publisher's description. 650 0 $a Afghan War, 2001-2021. 650 0 $a Translators $z Lashkar GaÌh. $z Lashkar GaÌh. 650 0 $a Gardeners $z Lashkar GaÌh. $z Lashkar GaÌh. 651 7 $a Afghanistan $z Lashkar GaÌh. 653 0 $a Warfare & defence (Afghanistan) 653 0 $a 21st Century history (Afghanistan) 655 7 $a Biographies. 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781399410991 941 $a 6 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20240502012011.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20240409012723.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20240305011644.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240302012122.0 952 $l TFPI826 $d 20240302011251.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20240223011227.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4A190570D21911EEBD06BE2522ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b BUPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search