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The Gardener of Lashkar Gah - The Afghans who Risked Everything to Fight the Taliban (Hardcover)
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The Gardener of Lashkar Gah - The Afghans who Risked Everything to Fight the Taliban (Hardcover)
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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’.
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