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cdbaker's review against another edition
5.0
Holy crap, this book was amazing. Heart wrenching and sad, but beautifully written and compelling. I suspect that I'm going to assign this book in a lot of future classes.
lrc52's review against another edition
5.0
anyone who questions that us foreign policy set the stage for terrorism in/from afghanistan, read this book. i never doubted this, but this book breaks it down. this is a story of a person, a woman, an afghan, who grew up in the middle of her country being torn apart by politics.
the enemy of your enemy is not your friend.
the enemy of your enemy is not your friend.
msgtdameron's review against another edition
informative
sad
fast-paced
4.25
Unlike many works on Afghanistan this one is more concerned with the Soviet war and occupation. It shows once again how America used the Afghanies for our Cold War purposes and then abandoned them to their own devices. This led to the Taliban which are really a bunch of uneducated, illiterate, clowns who are backed by Saudi money and Pakistan intelligence services. How this unholy alliance led to so much grief for Afghanistan and continues this grief until today. Even though this work stops around 2004, all you have to do is look back at the headlines of the past 17 years and you can see the affect of Saudi and Pakistan influence. From good Taliban, both under the Soviets, Taliban and the U.S., to Mujahideen and the various factions that have been created over the past 30 years all have left the nation torn and destroyed. Even worse is the Taliban in power today and the retrograde to the oppressive Taliban under Saudi control that the U.S. should never have dealt with. I would love to see a follow up by N. Pazira on the situation in her homeland.
kellywolfe's review against another edition
2.0
I've read a lot of books on this subject and did not find this one at all compelling.
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