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The Gardener of Lashkar Gah
The Afghans who Risked Everything to Fight the Taliban
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"Beautifully researched and deeply moving, this book brought me to tears more than once" -- John Simpson, The Guardian "First-class...exhaustively researched and sensitively written" -- The Times The extraordinary true story of the Afghans who risked their lives for us. The sudden withdrawal of British and...
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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.
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.
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"Beautifully researched and deeply moving, this book brought me to tears more than once" -- John Simpson, The Guardian
"First-class...exhaustively researched and sensitively written" -- The Times
The extraordinary true story of the Afghans who risked their lives for us.
The sudden withdrawal of British and American troops from Afghanistan in 2021 ended the 20-year war on terror, yet it also left Afghanistan to be reconquered by the Taliban. As violence and religious fundamentalism once again overwhelmed the region, thousands of Afghans who loyally served the British and American armies were left behind.
This is the story of what happened to them when the West left.
The Gardener of Lashkar Gah follows the extraordinary journey of Shaista Gul, a kind former-policeman who built a beautiful garden inside a military base in Helmand Province that became famous as a calm oasis for soldiers with troubled minds. Other members of his family worked for the allies, including his son Jamal, who became an interpreter for the British Army when he was just a teenager. Following the chaotic withdrawal of allied troops, a suicide bombing at Kabul airport, and a desperate scramble to reunite loved ones and evacuate the region, all members of the family suffered.
Larisa Brown, Defence Editor for The Times, award-winning journalist and a campaigner for the interpreters of Afghanistan, has spent hundreds of hours talking to members of the Gul family and others across the region in order to tell their remarkable stories. In heart-warming and beautifully human prose, she unspools a tale of courage, hope, and sacrifice - with the beauty of the garden and the hopes and dreams of the family counterpointed against the violence, anger, and chaos raging in Afghanistan at the time.
The scandalous betrayal of many of the interpreters and others who worked for the British and American armies is still being revealed. By telling one familyβs bittersweet experience, The Gardener of Lashkar Gah provides a unique and powerful insight into the devastating effects on ordinary Afghans of the end of the βWar on Terrorβ.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781399411004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 29 August 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Continuum
Illustration: 8-page plate section of photographs
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 223g
Pages: 288
About the Author
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.
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