A WAR WITHOUT STRATEGY - A BATTLFIELD WITHOUT BORDERS
From the command centers of the Pentagon and CIA headquarters to the dust-choked roads and mountain passes of Afghanistan, BAGRAM: A NOVEL is a raw, unflinching portrayal of America’s longest war.
An elite team of CIA helicopter pilots flies out of Bagram Airfield, tasked with the missions no one else can touch—slipping special operators into the darkest corners of the Hindu Kush, hauling the wounded out under fire, and bringing home the dead when everything goes wrong. Around them, the war unfolds in stark, interconnected vignettes: Afghan villagers trying to live ordinary lives in extraordinary danger; American soldiers, intelligence officers, and special operations teams chasing enemies who dissolve into terrain and rumor; insurgents and shadow networks shaping attacks from across borders and inside quiet mountain villages. Above it all, drones watch, jets circle, bombers wait, and the machinery of war grinds on—day after day—until purpose blurs into routine and exhaustion becomes its own kind of enemy. As the threads tighten, the story drives toward a brutal reckoning in the caves of Tora Bora, where loyalty fractures, truths collapse, and survival comes at a cost no one can measure.
Gritty, deeply human, and relentlessly real—this is a war story about the people trapped inside the mission after the mission is gone.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. A WAR WITHOUT STRATEGY - A BATTLFIELD WITHOUT BORDERS From the command centers of the Pentagon and CIA headquarters to the dust-choked roads and mountain passes of Afghanistan, BAGRAM: A NOVEL is a raw, unflinching portrayal of America's longest war. At the story's center is an elite team of CIA helicopter pilots flying out of Bagram Airfield. They are asked to do everything: insert elite teams into the darkest corners of the Hindu Kush mountains, evacuate the wounded under fire, and recover the dead if things go wrong. They ferry the world's most expert counter-terrorists to hidden places that maps barely acknowledge, and risk their lives flying through Afghanistan's massive mountains on a daily basis. What began as a national mission of retribution has become routine. Purpose has faded into repetition. They are professionals to the core, but they are exhausted by the endless rotations, the growing weight of their losses, and the gnawing sense that none of the effort will add up to anything that matters. Told through a series of interconnected vignettes, the narrative moves between Afghan villagers struggling to maintain ordinary lives amid extraordinary danger, and American soldiers, special operators, and intelligence officers pursuing the Taliban and Al Qaeda through a landscape where enemies vanish into the terrain, alliances shift without warning, and every mission risks unraveling into something darker. It follows Pakistani intelligence agents maneuvering in the shadows, insurgents crafting plans in quiet mountain villages, and suicide bombers preparing to strike at Bagram itself. Beyond the perimeter, American patrols roll out in their MRAPs, counter-IED teams play a deadly game of cat and mouse, and Special Operations forces execute missions that blur the line between victory and futility. Overhead, A-10 pilots carve tight circles through hostile valleys, Predator drone crews sit in dim trailers ten thousand miles away, watching targets flicker across their screens, while B-1 bombers cruise silently above it all - waiting to unleash destruction at a moment's notice. Woven through it all, civilians remain caught between shifting lines - negotiating survival in a war that demands everything and explains nothing. What emerges is not a single story, but a mosaic of fear, duty, survival, and futility - echoes of a war that resists resolution. As the characters converge, the story hurtles toward a harrowing climax in the caves of Tora Bora - a desperate battle fought in darkness and dust, where alliances falter, truths collapse, and no one emerges untouched. It is a confrontation as murky and brutal as the war itself, and one more last stand in a place that has seen too many. BAGRAM: A NOVEL describes a conflict that is not defined by sweeping battles, but by the relentless grind of everyday operations - brief flashes of violence, long stretches of waiting, and the disorientation of fighting everywhere and nowhere at once. Gritty, unflinching, and deeply human, this is not a story about winning or losing - it's about those trapped in a war that has outlived its purpose, and the quiet moments of fear, courage, and disillusionment that linger between the explosions. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798990588257
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