Fifth Act : America's End in Afghanistan
Author: Ackerman, Elliot
ISBN: 9780593653029
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Publisher,Penguin Press
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Format, Paperback
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No. of Pages, 288
When the Taliban began to close in on Kabul in August of 2021 Elliot Ackerman was drawn into an impromptu effort alongside a group of journalists and other veterans to arrange flights and negotiate with both Taliban and American forces to secure the safe evacuation of hundreds. Using the dramatic rescue efforts in Kabul as his lattice, Ackerman weaves in a personal history of the war's long progress, beginning with the initial invasion in the months after 9/11. Any reader who wants to understand what went wrong with the war's trajectory will find a trenchant accounting here. And yet The Fifth Act is not an exercise in finger-pointing: it brings readers into close contact with a remarkable group of characters, American and Afghan, who fought the war with courage and dedication, in good faith and at great personal cost.
