KILLING THE CRANES: A REPORTER’S JOURNEY THROUGH THREE DECADES OF WAR IN AFGHANISTAN

Book ID/图书代码： 03830511B47814

English Summary/英文概要： Few reporters have covered Afghanistan as intrepidly and humanely as Edward Girardet. Now, in a gripping, personal account, Girardet delivers a story of that nation’s resistance fighters, foreign invaders, mercenaries, spies, aid workers, Islamic extremists, and others who have defined Afghanistan’s last thirty years of war, chaos, and strife.

As a young foreign correspondent, Girardet arrived in Afghanistan just three months prior to the Soviet invasion in 1979. Over the next decades, he trekked hundreds of miles across rugged mountains and deserts on clandestine journeys following Afghan guerrillas in battle as they smuggled French doctors into the country, and as they combated each other as well as invaders. He witnessed the world’s greatest refugee exodus, the bitter Battle for Kabul in the early 1990s, the rise of the Taliban, and, finally, the US-led Western military and recovery effort that began in 2001.

Girardet’s encounters with key figures—including Ahmed Shah Massoud, the famed “Lion of Panjshir” assassinated by al Qaeda two days before 9/11, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Islamic extremist massively supported by the Americans during the 1980s only to become one of today’s most ruthless anti-Western insurgents, and Osama bin Laden—shed extraordinary light on the personalities who have shaped the nation, and its current challenges, from corruption and narcotics trafficking to selfish regional interests.

Killing the Cranes provides crucial insights into why the West’s current involvement has turned into such a disaster, not only rekindling a new insurgency, but squandering billions of dollars on a recovery process that has shown scant success.

In this Killing the Cranes paperback edition, Girardet has updated the book throughout and has written a new epilogue to reflect ever-changing events on the ground.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在对阿富汗的报道上，没有几个人能像爱德华.吉拉德特一样大胆无畏、充满仁爱。如今，在这本扣人心弦的个人故事当中，吉拉德特讲述了阿富汗民族的奋起反抗的民族勇士、外族的侵略者、雇佣来的兵力、间谍、援助工作者、伊斯兰教的极端分子以及那些将阿富汗过去三十年卷入战争、混乱以及暴动和冲突的不法分子。

作为一名年轻的外国记者，吉拉德特于1979年——即苏联入侵阿富汗的前三个月抵达该国。接下来的数十年中，他跟随四处秘密进行战斗阿富汗游击队一起艰苦跋涉，和他们一起翻越崎岖不平的高山，横跨一望无垠的沙漠。游击队一边将法国派来的医生遣送如境内，一边进行着内讧、抵御入侵者。吉拉德特见证了世界上最庞大的难民潮，20世纪90年代激烈的喀布尔战争，塔利班的崛起，以及2001年开始的、由美国主导的西方军事行动和恢复工作。

吉拉德特遇到了很多重要人物，包括艾哈迈德.沙阿.马苏德，在9.11前两天被基地组织暗杀的著名人物“潘洁希尔狮王”，希克马蒂亚尔——20世纪80年代美国民众广泛支持的伊斯兰教极端分子，结果却变成了当今最残酷无情的反西方社会叛乱分子之一，以及奥萨马.本.拉登——他对那些建设阿富汗国家以及导致包括贪污腐败、毒品走私和自私的区域利益等当下巨变的名流产生了巨大的影响。

《屠杀民众》深刻地探讨了为什么当前四方对阿富汗的干预变成了一场悲剧，西方社会的干预不仅导致了新的叛乱，而在恢复的过程中尽管挥霍了数十亿美元，取得的成效却是微乎其微。

在平装版中，基德拉特已经对内容进行了全面的更新，并撰写全新的结语，以反思全球不断变化的大事件。(XMM)

Awards/获奖情况：“本书的创作基于作者爱德华.基德拉特在阿富汗30多年的所见所闻，他对阿富汗的区域历史和多样化的群体进行了深刻的反思。作者捕获了阿富汗人们的活力、骄傲以及他们所具备的潜能。此外，他还探讨了军事干涉的局限性以及制定一些与乡村社区密切联系的政策是可能性。对于任何想和深入了解当代阿富汗的读者来说，爱德华的作品不能错过。”——Jeremi Suri,《美利坚民族发展史——从华盛顿到奥巴马》的作者

"Drawing on more than three decades of personal travels to Afghanistan, Edward Girardet offers a ruminating set of reflections on the history of the region and its diverse groups. He captures the dynamism, the pride, and the potential of the people living in Afghanistan. He also examines the limitations of military interventions and the possibilities for policies more deeply connected to rural communities. Girardet’s book is a must-read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of contemporary Afghanistan."—Jeremi Suri, author of LibertyÂ’s Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from Washington to Obama

About the Author/作者介绍： 爱德华.基德拉特是一名记者、作者和制作人。自上世纪70年代以来，他对非洲、亚洲以及其他等地的人道主义和战争地区进行广泛报道。作为《基督教科学箴言报》、《美国新闻与世界报道》以及总部位于巴黎的《莱勒新闻时刻》等报刊的驻外记者，1979年基德拉特在苏联入侵阿富汗的前几个月开始报道该国相关消息。他曾参与制作欧洲和北美广播电视主办的众多电视实事和纪录片，涉及的主题包括安哥拉战争，西新几内亚迷失的部落，非洲环境问题等。

Edward Girardet is a journalist, writer and producer who has reported widely from humanitarian and conflict zones in Africa, Asia and elsewhere since the late 1970s. As a foreign correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, US News and World Report, and The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour based in Paris, he first began covering Afghanistan several months prior to the Soviet invasion in 1979. He has worked on numerous television current affairs and documentary segments on subjects ranging from the war in Angola to lost tribes in Western New Guinea and environmental issues in Africa for major European and North American broadcasters. ...

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