Con Coughlin
Autor de Churchill's First War: Young Winston and the Fight Against the Taliban
Sobre El Autor
Con Coughlin, one of Britain's leading journalists, is the executive foreign editor of the Daily Telegraph and a world-renowned expert on the Middle East. He is the critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Saddam: His Rise and Fall. He appears regularly on television and radio mostrar más in the United States, and has been a frequent political commentator on CNN, NBC, and MSNBC. He has also written for the Wall Street Journal and the Atlantic Monthly. He lives in London, England. mostrar menos
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- 13
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- #72,116
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- 3.6
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- 38
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This well written, very readable account is a good background read when considering what is going on in Afghanistan today.
The early chapters explain the Churchill family circumstances that led Winston Churchill to volunteer for service in Afghanistan. Then the history of the British involvement in the region is discussed. Then Churchill’s actual participation with the Malakand Field Force is covered. Churchill was twenty-one years old at the time (1897) and this operation, and his subsequent writing about it, was the basis of the reputation that led to his later political successes.
An excellent read for anyone interested in Churchill’s career and/or the troubled Afghan region.… (más)