The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan - Softcover

Hastings, Michael

 
9780753829387: The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan
Softcover
ISBN 10: 075382938X ISBN 13: 9780753829387
Verlag: W&N, 2013

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Six rollercoaster weeks that brought down America's top general by the ROLLING STONE journalist who broke the story - now the inspiration for the major motion picture WAR MACHINE.

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Michael Hastings was a reporter for BuzzFeed and contributing editor at Rolling Stone until his death in 2013. He regularly covered politics and international affairs, including the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. In 2011, he received the George Polk Award in journalism for his Rolling Stone story, 'The Runaway General'.

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'An impressive feat of journalism by a Washington outsider who seemed to know more about what was going on in Washington than most insiders did' New York Times

General Stanley McChrystal, innovative commander of international and US forces in Afghanistan, was living large. During a spring 2010 trip across Europe he was accompanied by journalist Michael Hastings of Rolling Stone, who looked on as McChrystal and his staff partied and openly bashed the Obama administration. Hasting's published piece aroused a political firestorm: McChrystal was unceremoniously fired.

The Operators gives us a shocking behind-the-scenes portrait of Allied military commanders, their high-stakes manoeuvres and bureaucratic in-fighting. Hastings takes us on patrol missions in the Afghan hinterlands and to hotel bars where spies and expensive hookers participate in nation-building gone awry, revealing a hellish complexity and, he fears, an unwinnable war.

Phoenix
Non-Fiction/Current Affairs

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Verlag
W&N
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
075382938X
ISBN 13 
9780753829387
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
432
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