The Lion's Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan

The Lion's Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan

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Synopsis

Two weeks after the terrorist attacks of 11 September, Jon Lee Anderson became one of the first Western journalists to gain access to Afghanistan. Even for a seasoned reporter, the situation was unexpectedly dangerous - there were no clearly demarcated front lines, no electricity or phone lines, and the roads were full of mines and bandits. Anderson stayed in Afghanistan for months, filing first-hand reports for New Yorker on the high-technology conflict in a feudal terrain. The Lion's Grave brings together these stories, supplemented by vivid unpublished e-mail accounts that transport the reader on to the ground and into the process of war journalism. Anderson reports from the intriguing court of Burhanuddin Rabbani, the deposed but still-official president of Afghanistan; he witnesses the fall of Kunduz, one of the last Taliban bastions; and he finds evidence that the Taliban were not the austere, self-abnegating men they claimed to be. The Lion's Grave also includes a previously unpublished account of the urgent search for Osama bin Laden in the caves of Tora Bora. It is destined to become a classic.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: Main
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 26 Nov 2002

ISBN 10: 1843541181
ISBN 13: 9781843541189
Book Overview: Destined to become a classic, The Lion's Grave is a brilliant and gripping first-hand account of the war that is remaking the world.

Author Bio
Jon Lee Anderson has been a foreign correspondent for over twenty years. His work has appeared in Time, Harper's, the New Yorker, the New York Times and other periodicals. His previous books include Guerrillas and Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life. He has reported from Angola, Cuba, Panama, Liberia, Iraq and the Basque region of northern Spain.