Twenty Years

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Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan book award One of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 An Economist Best Book of the Year | An Air Mail editor's pick "Rasmussen combines social history with rigorous reporting . . . His ability to delve into [his characters'] lives lends his book the feeling of a novel . . . Trenchant . . . Superlative." -Martha Anne Toll, The Washington Post "Devastating . . . Impressive . . . Haunting." -Suzy Hansen, The New York Review of Books An intimate history of the Afghan war-and the young Afghans whose dreams it enabled and dashed. No country was more deeply affected by 9/11 than Afghanistan: an entire generation grew up amid the upheaval that began that day. Young Afghans knew the promise of freedom, democracy, and safety, fought with each other over its meaning-and then witnessed its collapse. In Twenty Years, the Wall Street Journal correspondent Sune Engel Rasmussen draws on more than a decade of reporting from the country to tell Afghanistan's story from a new angle. Through the eyes of newly empowered women, skilled entrepreneurs, driven insurgents, and abandoned Western allies, we see the United States and its partners bring new freedoms and wealth, only to preside over the corruption, war-lordism, and social division that led to the Taliban's return to power. Rasmussen relates this history via two main characters: Zahra, who returns from abroad with high hopes for her liberated county, where she

• Binding: Hardcover

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