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Dust Of Uruzgan
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ISBN
9781760292218
Date Published
2016
Book Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publication Date: 2016
ISBN:9781760292218
Condition: Very Good
Fred Smith has been described as ‘Australia’s secret weapon’ in international diplomacy. As a career diplomat he served for two years in southern Afghanistan, working alongside Australian soldiers in Uruzgan Province.
Part memoir, part history, part eyewitness reportage, Dust of Uruzgan offers a sympathetic explanation of an obscure and impoverished province where tribal leaders conspire against one another in a society devastated by thirty-five years of warfare.
‘We see Afghanistan as a “war”, but of course it’s a society,’ says Fred. ‘People there make decisions for reasons. My job was to understand those reasons. I wrote this book to offer a personal, entertaining and human account of what was going on – why things were the way they were, and what 20,000 Australian troops and a handful of diplomats have been to over there for the last 15 years.’
With remarkable insight and humour, The Dust of Uruzgan recounts the setbacks and successes of a contingent of Australian soldiers, diplomats and aid workers struggling to make a difference in a place where truth and clarity were often buried, and where too many young Australians perished in the dust of Uruzgan.
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