The Dust of Kandahar: A Diplomat Among Warriors in Afghanistan

by Jonathan S. Addleton

Book Overview

The Dust of Kandahar provides a personal account of one diplomat's year of service in America's longest war. Ambassador Addleton movingly describes the everyday human drama of the American soldiers, local tribal dignitaries, government officials, and religious leaders he interacted and worked with in southern Afghanistan. Addleton's writing is at its most vivid in his firsthand account of the April 2013 suicide bombing outside a Zabul school that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682470792
• ISBN13: 9781682470794
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"