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UNINA9910817823803321 |
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Osmond Andrew <1938-> |
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Spirited away / / Andrew Osmond |
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London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : British Film Institute, , 2020 |
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©2008 |
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1 online resource (121 pages) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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UNINA9910957354303321 |
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Corwin Phillip |
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Doomed in Afghanistan : a UN officer's memoir of the fall of Kabul and Najibullah's failed escape, 1992 / / Phillip Corwin |
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New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2003 |
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0-8135-6827-7 |
0-8135-3451-8 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (265 p.) |
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Afghanistan History Soviet occupation, 1979-1989 Personal narratives |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-225) and index. |
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Waiting for the end: Kabul, 4/92 (poem) -- 1 Setting the Stage -- 2 The Journal: April 1992 -- 3 The View from UN Headquarters -- 4 Seven |
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Years After: An Interview with Afghan Expatriates -- Epilogue: After the Events of 11 September 2001 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index. |
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To understand more deeply the tragic events of September 11, 2001, it is critical to know Afghanistan's recent and turbulent past. Doomed in Afghanistan provides a first-hand account of how failed diplomacy led to an Islamic fundamentalist victory in a war-torn country, and subsequently, to a Taliban takeover and a home for Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist network. In April of 1992, Phillip Corwin was part of a United Nations team in Afghanistan whose mission was to help ensure the transfer of power from the Soviet-installed communist regime of President Najibullah to an interim government (that would prepare for elections). Without the support of the Soviet Union, Najibullah's regime crumbled, and he was convinced to resign in favor of a national unity government, with the understanding that he would be evacuated to a neutral country (India). Due to a series of miscalculations and machinations, the U.N.'s diplomatic mission failed. Kabul fell to groups of mujahiddin before Najibullah could be evacuated. The inability of the various mujahiddin factions to unite led to their eventual defeat by the Taliban, who four years later routed Najibullah from his safe haven at the U.N. compound, and executed him. Corwin gives a vivid account of the seminal event of Najibullah's failed evacuation and the frenzied negotiations that were unable to forestall the anarchy and chaos that followed. |
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