A kingdom of their own : the family Karzai and the Afghan disaster /

"The key to understanding the calamitous Afghan war is the complex, ultimately failed relationship between the powerful, duplicitous Karzai family and the U.S.--brilliantly portrayed here in its entirety for the first time by the former Washington Post Kabul bureau chief"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Partlow, Joshua (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:

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