Larisa Brown

The Gardener of Lashkar Gah

The Afghans Who Risked Everything to Fight the Taliban

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Produktbeschreibung

The extraordinary story of the family who built a garden, fought the Taliban and were forced to flee for their lives during Britain and America's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 194mm x 127mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 224g
• ISBN-13: 9781399411004
• ISBN-10: 1399411004
• Artikelnr.: 70079451

Autorenporträt

Larisa Brown is a multi-award winning journalist and Defence Editor of The Times. She has many years of experience reporting from conflict zones around the world, including Syria, Libya and Afghanistan. Prior to joining The Times, Larisa was Defence and Security Editor at the Daily Mail where she spearheaded the newspaper's much praised Betrayal of the Brave campaign. It fought for interpreters who helped fight the Taliban to be given sanctuary in Britain and won Campaign of the Year at the British Journalism Awards 2018.

Rezensionen

'[Larisa Brown's] account of what happened to one particular family – the father, who used to tend the gardens in a British compound at Lashkar Gah base, his son who worked with British soldiers as an interpreter, and the rest of their relatives – is beautifully researched and deeply moving, her account brought me to tears more than once...an important story'