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Killing the cranes: A Reporter's journey through three decades of war in Afghanistan by Edward Girardet
Published by Chelsea Green Publishing and available at Amazon.com
Edward R. Girardet's account of three decades of covering the war in Afghanistan from the Soviet invasion to NATO's efforts to bring peace to a troubled region.
They have read Killing the cranes
James Fallows, author of Blind into Baghdad and Postcards from Tomorrow Square.
"Edward Girardet puts all of his thirty years' experience to use in this vivid, enlightening, humane, yet alarming book. Few other observers have had the determination to cover Afghan events from before the Soviet invasion to the preparations for American withdrawal. Girardet describes that whole saga, points out why and whether things could have gone differently, and explains the realistic prospects ahead. This is a life's-work testimony in the best sense."
David Swanson, author of War Is A Lie and Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union. He blogs at http://davidswanson.org.
"Girardet's book should be read for the fascinating accounts of his reporting adventures -- as good as or better than "The Photographer" by Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefevre, and Frederic Lemercier -- but also for the richness of the understanding he conveys of how Afghan culture has been changed by these decades of war, and in particular by the foreign jihadists imported to oppose the Russians."
Library Thing (September 1):
"Journalist Edward Girardet's KILLING THE CRANES will probably not be a popular book in the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. There are too many career politicians and professional war-mongers who will feel threatened by what Girardet has to say.
After more than thirty years of reporting on the nearly-continuous wars that have torn Afghanistan apart, Girardet has developed a deep respect and even affection for its proud people. He has no personal political agenda to promote here, other than a fervent wish for an end to the wars that have left the country's economy in ruins and millions of people uprooted and destitute." Read more...
David M. Kinchen for Huntingtonnews.net (September 6)
Edward Girardet's Tour
Interviews
World Radio Switzerland, "Not so Foreign Affairs" with Lucy Morgan Edwards, August 23
Talk Nation Radio, September 1: "Afghanistan is More for Sale Today than 10 Years Ago"
The Leonard Lopate Show, September 7
The Kojo Nnamdi Show, September 8
The Village Voice
First Tuesday Political Series
September 6, 7:00pm
Fordham Law School
September 15, 5:00pm - 6:30 pm
Room 430 B/C, Fordham Law School, 140 W. 62nd St., New York, NY
Duke University
The Great Pretend Game -- Realities on the Ground in Afghanistan
November 2, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Duke Center for International Development (DCID), DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, and Sanford School of Public Policy
Location: Sanford Rhodes Conference Room
Yale University
Yale Law School, November 4, 2011, 12:00 pm
Edward Girardet will participate on a panel during the Yale Law School Alumni Weekend, November 4-6. The panel will focus on Law and Human Rights Media.
Executives International
Hotel Lausanne Palace, November 16, 7:30pm
Reserve here
Edward R. Girardet's account of three decades of covering the war in Afghanistan from the Soviet invasion to NATO's efforts to bring peace to a troubled region.
They have read Killing the cranes
James Fallows, author of Blind into Baghdad and Postcards from Tomorrow Square.
"Edward Girardet puts all of his thirty years' experience to use in this vivid, enlightening, humane, yet alarming book. Few other observers have had the determination to cover Afghan events from before the Soviet invasion to the preparations for American withdrawal. Girardet describes that whole saga, points out why and whether things could have gone differently, and explains the realistic prospects ahead. This is a life's-work testimony in the best sense."
David Swanson, author of War Is A Lie and Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union. He blogs at http://davidswanson.org.
"Girardet's book should be read for the fascinating accounts of his reporting adventures -- as good as or better than "The Photographer" by Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefevre, and Frederic Lemercier -- but also for the richness of the understanding he conveys of how Afghan culture has been changed by these decades of war, and in particular by the foreign jihadists imported to oppose the Russians."
Library Thing (September 1):
"Journalist Edward Girardet's KILLING THE CRANES will probably not be a popular book in the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. There are too many career politicians and professional war-mongers who will feel threatened by what Girardet has to say.
After more than thirty years of reporting on the nearly-continuous wars that have torn Afghanistan apart, Girardet has developed a deep respect and even affection for its proud people. He has no personal political agenda to promote here, other than a fervent wish for an end to the wars that have left the country's economy in ruins and millions of people uprooted and destitute." Read more...
David M. Kinchen for Huntingtonnews.net (September 6)
Edward Girardet's Tour
Interviews
World Radio Switzerland, "Not so Foreign Affairs" with Lucy Morgan Edwards, August 23
Talk Nation Radio, September 1: "Afghanistan is More for Sale Today than 10 Years Ago"
The Leonard Lopate Show, September 7
The Kojo Nnamdi Show, September 8
The Village Voice
First Tuesday Political Series
September 6, 7:00pm
Fordham Law School
September 15, 5:00pm - 6:30 pm
Room 430 B/C, Fordham Law School, 140 W. 62nd St., New York, NY
Duke University
November 2, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Sponsored by the Duke Center for International Development (DCID), DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, and Sanford School of Public Policy
Location: Sanford Rhodes Conference Room
Yale Law School, November 4, 2011, 12:00 pm
Edward Girardet will participate on a panel during the Yale Law School Alumni Weekend, November 4-6. The panel will focus on Law and Human Rights Media.
Executives International
Hotel Lausanne Palace, November 16, 7:30pm
Reserve here
Afghanistan - The Soviet war by Edward Girardet
Re-publication by Routledge in late July
First published in 1985, this is a book written at the height of the
Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Based on five clandestine trips
into Afghanistan with the resistance, the book examines why the Soviets
invaded in 1979 and what they were seeking to defend. The author
analyses their deliberate policy of migratory genocide through a
combination of aerial bombardments, political repression and economic
blockades. He interviewed many of the leaders of the
Afghan resistance, both inside Afghanistan and in the refugee camps and
he explains in depth the nature of the Afghan Islamic anti-communist
struggle for independence.
This is a book in the finest tradition of war reporting on the front line and the reissue is essential reading for all those interested in the history of the conflict in Afghanistan.
Availibale at Routledge. Order it now !
This is a book in the finest tradition of war reporting on the front line and the reissue is essential reading for all those interested in the history of the conflict in Afghanistan.
Availibale at Routledge. Order it now !
