This hard-hitting book is the definitive account of the Biden administration\'s most disgraceful hour--and the chaos it unleashed in the world.
While Americans watched the fall of Afghanistan with disbelief, our nation\'s enemies were also paying close attention..
Ultimately, this book explains how Biden\'s Afghanistan retreat spurred a dangerous new era that persist for decades.
Chapter after chapter, Kabul depicts American government at its worst and ordinary Americans at their best.
Kabul\'s original reporting includes eyewitness accounts from servicemembers of all ranks who participated the rescue effort, inside information from senior intelligence officials, interviews with high-ranking members of allied governments, harrowing stories from Americans and Afghan allies willfully abandoned by craven officials in Washington, and exclusive details about veteran-led rescue missions that continue to this day.
The authors also tell, for the first time, inspiring stories of the bravery and sacrifices exhibited by countless Americans on the ground.
Kabul is packed with shocking and infuriating exclusive details about fatal politics and bureaucracy that contributed to the catastrophe.
Drawing from hundreds of hours of first-person interviews, investigative reporter Jerry Dunleavy and former Army Captain and Afghanistan veteran James Hasson provide an exclusive, no-holds-barred account of the disastrous events of August 2021.
Still, the full Story is worse than anyone imagined. service members--eleven of whom were still in preschool on 9/11--were murdered in an ISIS suicide bombing that could easily have been prevented.
And thirteen U.
S.
Countless Afghan interpreters were abandoned to the mercy of the Taliban after risking their lives alongside American troops for years. civilians trying to access the few square miles still controlled by American forces.
Taliban fighters mercilessly whipped and humiliated U.
S.
Desperate Afghans fell from the landing gear of departing planes.
Women and children were trampled to death outside the gates of the Kabul airfield.
America\'s chaotic retreat from Afghanistan in 2021 was nothing short of a horror show.
This hard-hitting book is the definitive account of the Biden administration\'s most disgraceful hour--and the chaos it unleashed in the world
