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    »We Are Here to Stay«
    »We Are Here to Stay« ab 33.99 € als pdf eBook: Pashtun Migrants in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus,
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    As the Dust Devils Danced
    As the Dust Devils Danced ab 25.49 € als Taschenbuch: God Pashtun Honor Opium and Stability in Uruzgan Afghanistan. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,
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    Narrative Identity
    Narrative Identity ab 29.99 € als epub eBook: Transnational Practices of Pashtun Immigrants in the United States of America. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Sozialwissenschaften,
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    To the Best of Our Knowledge: Afghan Stories, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
    In this hour, Khaled Hosseini's novel The Kite Runner put Afghan fiction on the map. Hosseini's new book is And the Mountains Echoed.Next, Anna Badkhen spent a year in Oqa, a remote Afghan village. She got to know the 240 people who live there, especially the weavers.Then, Eliza Griswold went to the Pashtun region of Afghanistan to gather landay poems for Poetry Magazine. This month’s entire edition is dedicated to the landay. After that, for millennia the Hazara people have been telling folk tales. Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman have collected them in a book called The Honey Thief. Finally, Buzkashi Boys was one of the film shorts nominated for an Oscar this year. This is a coming of age story set in Afghanistan’s national sport, Buzkashi. It's a game of horse polo played with a dead goat instead of a ball. [Broadcast Date: June 26, 2013] Language: English. Narrator: Jim Fleming. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/130626/rt_tbon_130626_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Ghost Platoon , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 598min
    Marines Robert Flynn and Izzy Khan are fed up with being pinned down by machine guns with no air support. Now back in the U.S., they create "ORION" a platoon based weapon system utilizing quadrocopters and precision guided mortars. They soon discover the problem with ORION - it's too cheap and too effective. Undeterred by the powers that be, they embark upon a mission to prove ORION, a misguided quest so dangerous it will take more than ORION to save them. Ride with them as they fight their way into the badlands of Southwest Afghanistan. Soon the Platoon, an adopted "Tiger Dog" and a band of rag tag Pashtun guides will depend on each other against powerful hidden foes both in Afghanistan and within their own government. A story of love, loyalty, betrayal, and sacrifice, Ghost Platoon explores the complex issues facing the over exposed modern day "Grunt". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Avers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/194455/bk_acx0_194455_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan
    How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan ab 34.99 € als epub eBook: Two Years in the Pashtun Homeland. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Geschichte & Dokus,
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    Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10, Hörbuch, Digital, 311min
    In June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader. Less then 24 hours later, only one of those SEALs remained alive. This is the story of team leader Marcus Luttrell, the sole survivor of Operation Redwing and the desperate battle that led to the largest loss of life in Navy SEAL history. More than anything, this is the story of how his teammates stood beside him until he was the last one left - blasted unconscious by a rocket grenade, blown over a cliff, but still armed and breathing. Over the next four days, badly injured and presumed dead, Luttrell fought off six al Qaeda assassins who were sent to finish him, then crawled for seven miles through the mountains before he was taken in by a Pashtun tribe that risked everything to protect him from the Taliban. In this moving chronicle of courage, Marcus Luttrell offers one of the most powerful narratives ever written about modern warfare. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin T. Collins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/000051/bk_hach_000051_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan: Two Years in the Pashtun Homeland , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 624min
    Douglas Grindle provides a firsthand account of how the war in Afghanistan was won in a rural district south of Kandahar City and how the newly created peace slipped away when vital resources failed to materialize and the United States headed for the exit. By placing the reader at the heart of the American counterinsurgency effort, Grindle reveals little-known incidents, including the failure of expensive aid programs to target local needs, the slow throttling of local government as official funds failed to reach the districts, and the United States’ inexplicable failure to empower the Afghan local officials even after they succeeded in bringing the people onto their side. Grindle presents the side of the hard-working Afghans who won the war and expresses what they really thought of the U.S. military and its decisions. Written by a former field officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development, this story of dashed hopes and missed opportunities details how America’s desire to leave the war behind ultimately overshadowed its desire to sustain victory. The book is published by University of Nebraska Press. "A well-told story and a must-read for those who want to understand the obstacles to success in Afghanistan." (Publishers Weekly) “The best book yet to explain what the civilians in Afghanistan at the district level actually were doing and trying to do. Highly readable.” (Ambassador Ronald E. Neumann, author of The Other War: Winning and Losing in Afghanistan) “Doug Grindle's insightful understanding of the Afghan people and their trials and tribulation make this account a must-read.” (Sam Striker, author of The Humanity of Warfare) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Lerman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/109216/bk_acx0_109216_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 763min
    On a moonless night just weeks after September 11, 2001, U.S. Special Forces team ODA 574 infiltrates the mountains of southern Afghanistan with a seemingly impossible mission: to foment a tribal revolt and force the Taliban to surrender. Armed solely with the equipment they can carry on their backs, shockingly scant intelligence, and their mastery of guerrilla warfare, Captain Jason Amerine and his men have no choice but to trust their only ally: a little-known Pashtun statesman named Hamid Karzai who has returned from exile and is being hunted by the Taliban as he travels the countryside raising a militia. The Only Thing Worth Dying For chronicles the most important mission in the early days of the Global War on Terror, when the men on the ground knew little about the enemy - and their commanders in Washington knew even less. With unprecedented access to surviving members of ODA 574, key war planners, and Karzai himself, award-winning author Eric Blehm cuts through the noise of politicians and high-level military officials to narrate, for the first time, a story of uncommon bravery and terrible sacrifice, intimately exposing the realities of unconventional warfare and nation-building in Afghanistan that continue to shape the region today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: P.J. Ochlan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/002868/bk_harp_002868_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds
    'A beautifully observed and funny book' Guardian 'Compelling and humane' Sathnam SangheraA coming-of-age story set in Birmingham in the 1980s and 1990s, The Go-Between opens a window into a closed migrant community living in a red-light district on the wrong side of the tracks.The adult world is seen through Osman's eyes as a child: his own devout Pashtun patriarchal community, with its divide between the world of men and women, living cheek-by-jowl with parallel migrant communities. The orthodox attend a mosque down the road from the prostitutes and pimps. Children balance Western school teachings with cultural traditions. Alternative masculinities compete with strict gender roles, and female erasure and honour-based violence are committed, even as empowering female friendships prevail. The stories Osman tells, some fantastical and humorous, others melancholy and even harrowing, take us from the Birmingham of Osman's childhood to the banks of the river Kabul and the river Indus, and, eventually, to the London of his teenage years. Osman weaves in and out of these worlds, struggling with the dual burdens of racism and community expectations, as he is forced to realise it is no longer possible to exist in the spaces in between.
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