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With impressive rigor and exhaustive comprehensiveness, the author provides a 'ground-up perspective of those Americans who served in Afghanistan, not from the top-down levels of strategy and policy.'... [Mundey] covers every imaginable sphere of military life--the frequently austere living conditions, sexual relations among soldiers, illicit drug use, and the profoundly forbidding terrain and weather. What lucidly emerges is an intriguing and complex picture of American soldiers confronting a world so alien that they often found it difficult to sympathize with the plight of the Afghans. ...Mundey's presentation is admirably nuanced--she limns a war in constant evolution, one in which the mission objectives were subject to significant revisions over time. The author's prose is journalistically precise and straightforward as well as refreshingly sober and unencumbered by ideological partisanship. Instead of tired talking points, readers are treated to something despairingly rare these days: a faithful description supplied by the witnesses themselves. A remarkable, thorough tour of the war in Afghanistan given by soldiers who fought there. --Kirkus Reviews

“With impressive rigor and exhaustive comprehensiveness, the author provides a ‘ground-up perspective of those Americans who served in Afghanistan, not from the top-down levels of strategy and policy.’... [Mundey] covers every imaginable sphere of military life—the frequently austere living conditions, sexual relations among soldiers, illicit drug use, and the profoundly forbidding terrain and weather. What lucidly emerges is an intriguing and complex picture of American soldiers confronting a world so alien that they often found it difficult to sympathize with the plight of the Afghans. ...Mundey's presentation is admirably nuanced—she limns a war in constant evolution, one in which the mission objectives were subject to significant revisions over time. The author's prose is journalistically precise and straightforward as well as refreshingly sober and unencumbered by ideological partisanship. Instead of tired talking points, readers are treated to something despairingly rare these days: a faithful description supplied by the witnesses themselves. A remarkable, thorough tour of the war in Afghanistan given by soldiers who fought there.”—Kirkus Reviews

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Lisa M. Mundey is an American and military historian who has worked both in academia and U.S. Army history. She has written extensively on U.S. operations in Afghanistan. She lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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