GHOSTS OF AFGHANISTAN: HARD TRUTHS AND FOREIGN MYTHS

Book ID/图书代码： 00200011B49075

English Summary/英文概要： Yes, there are dozens of books on the Afghan wars. Most of them are all about firefights and heroics. But this is the first to take the events of the war Bush and Blair started and put them in the context of the Soviet war and even the British imperial wars that preceded them, and draw the lessons out, and make a sharp summary of what should happen next. No war is ever won against the Afghans. The only option is to give up, but the military never want to give up. The politicians eventually resume control, but Obama has not overruled his generals yet. Read Steele to see how the Russians coped; how Gorbachev ended the wasteful war, and see how Obama might. This is an extremely well-written modern history -- clear, coherent, with real explanatory power. It’s a synthetic work, drawing on Steele’s deep experience of the Soviet-Afghan War of 1979-1988 during which period he was the Guardian’s man in Moscow, and using that to illuminate the course of war since the post-9/11 invasion. As Steele makes plain in reporting the views of all sides on the ground, almost all Afghans simply want all foreigners off their soil whether they be jihadist Arabs or ignorant Texans, and will fight until that happens. This is, as Steele demonstrates, like all previous foreign invasions of the country, an unwinnable war for the Western allies. Ghosts of Afghanistan stands out for the combination of its calm clarity and comprehensibility, the firmness of its arguments, Steele’s stature as an analyst of the region of 30 years standing, his position as the one UK journalist who had first access to the WikiLeaks cache on Afghanistan, and his interpretation of what he found there.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 描述阿富汗战争的书诚然有很多，它们大多数都是关于连天战火与英雄故事的。但这是第一本揭示这场由布什和布莱尔引发的战争，并将它放在苏联战争背景下分析的书，甚至还涉及到了先于它发生的英国帝国战争，从中教会人们吸取教训，并且对于未来会发生的事给出了尖锐的分析。美国军队在阿富汗并没有取得胜利，唯一的选择是放弃，但是军队从来都不想要放弃。政治家们最终恢复控制，但是奥巴马也没有撤回他的军队。这本书会让你看到俄罗斯如何处理问题，Gorbachev如何结束这无用的战争，看奥巴马会有什么举措。这是一本非常好的分析现代历史的作品，清晰，连贯而且具有真正的解释力。1979年至1988年间，Steele是在莫斯科的驻守士兵，这段苏联阿富汗战争中的经历被运用到这部综合性的作品中，描述了这场9.11事件后的战争进程。Steele对任何一方的观点都做了直白的描述，几乎所有的阿富汗人都希望所有的外国侵略者远离他们的土地，并会为此战斗直到最后一刻，所以就像Steele说的，如同之前所有的侵略者，这对西方同盟国来说是一场打不赢的战争。《阿富汗幽灵》因其作者冷静的分析，非凡的理解力和坚定的论点而显得尤为突出，Steele作为一个英国记者，第一次踏上阿富汗的土地，向我们阐述了他在那发现的一切。(兼职翻译-XAT)

Awards/获奖情况："Steele讥讽了由政治家，上将，官方发言人以及数不清的评论家散布的荒诞说法以及半真半假的所谓事实。"——《观察者》

”非常值得阅读的书，Steele的作品总是那么具有挑战力。“——《周日时代》

”如果你想要很好地了解阿富汗战争，这本书就是最好的起点。“——《文学评论》

About the Author/作者介绍： Jonathan Steele曾就读于剑桥大学和耶鲁大学。他是华盛顿分社社长，莫斯科局局长和首席驻外记者。他目前是国际事务专栏作家。他曾写过《失败》，《为什么美国和英国战败伊拉克》于2008年出版。在2011五月，Steele因其阿富汗的报导赢得了世界媒体新闻奖。

Jonathan Steele was educated at Cambridge and Yale. He was Washington Bureau Chief, Moscow Bureau Chief, and Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Guardian. He is currently a columnist on international affairs. His previous book Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq was published in 2008. In May 2011, Steele won the One World Media Press Award for his reporting from Afghanistan.

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