The Afghanistan Papers

"A damning, gut-punch account of a misguided — and misrepresented — military debacle."
— Washington Independent Review of Books

“Impressively documented... By this authoritative account, the Afghanistan War has been a colossal failure that should have been ended years ago.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Searing... Rigorously detailed... this is a heartbreaking look at how America’s leaders 'chose to bury their mistakes and let the war drift.'”
— Publishers Weekly

*"*An important, timely account."
— Booklist (starred review)

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Craig Whitlock is an investigative reporter for The Washington Post *and the #1 *New York Times bestselling author of The Afghanistan Papers. He has worked for the *Post *since 1998 as a foreign correspondent, Pentagon reporter, and national security specialist, and has reported from more than sixty countries. His coverage of the war in Afghanistan won the George Polk Award for Military Reporting, the Scripps Howard Award for Investigative Reporting, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Freedom of Information Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for international reporting. He is also a three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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Klappentext

The groundbreaking investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public about the longest war in American history.