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|author=Sandy Gall
|title=War Against the Taliban: Why it All Went Wrong in Afghanistan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=It's always struck me that there are several countries where western might is going to be largely ineffective when it comes to an invasion or any other form of warfare. Vietnam proved to be one such place for the Americans back in the seventies and when the latest incursion into Afghanistan was announced my immediate reaction was that there would be no positive outcome, not least because that was what history dictated. This was broadly correct but overly simplistic and this was one of the reasons why Sandy Gall's book appealed to me so much. He's been involved with Afghanistan since ''before'' the Soviet invasion of 1979. This isn't a war correspondent dropping in and out of a country, but a man with a deep love for the people and a concern for their welfare. He has the contacts, his knowledge is encyclopaedic and he's an expert communicator.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408809052</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Shirley Harrison
