Lost in Kandahar

Name: Lost in Kandahar
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Alex Berenson
ISBN: 9781469230931

Author: Alex Berenson

Narrator: Alex Berenson

Unabridged: 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 11/13/2012

Categories: Nonfiction, Military History

Synopsis

When novelist and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson traveled to Afghanistan for an embed with the 101st Airborne Division, he found great soldiers – and a seemingly hopeless mission. This is the gripping non-fiction tale of how the United States is spending $100 billion a year on a war that even the men on the front lines can't explain.

About Alex Berenson

Alex Berenson is a former New York Times reporter and award-winning novelist. He attended Yale University and joined the Times in 1999, where he covered everything from the drug industry to Hurricane Katrina and served as a correspondent in Iraq. In 2006, The Faithful Spy, his debut novel, won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best First Novel. He has since written twelve more novels and a nonfiction book, Tell Your Children. Currently, he lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife and children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jack

Authentic, guy-wrenching portrayal of American soldiers' reality in Afghanistan I would hope the soldiers' opinions of Afghan counterparts are wrong in the long run. So much courage and blood and commitment on the US side are all a 180 from the Vietnam cluster fuck. Alex Berenson is always riveting.......more

Goodreads review by Dan

Berenson's description of KAF, Afghanistan and it's corruption resonates with my own cynicism. I remember.......more

Goodreads review by Frances

This is a short story about a return visit the author made to Afghanistan; no longer a journalist but now a fiction author. It is a really good look at the life and death days of soldiers.......more