The late Eric Newby‘s memoir of his travails as a prionser-of-war escapee in World War II Italy, Love and War in the Apennines, has been touted both as a true love story and a dramatic real-life war adventure. (It was even made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie in 2001 titled In Love and War.) But while acknowledging both those lures, I was seduced most by [...]
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American and British Interlopers in Afghanistan
by Rick Skwiot July 29, 2010 AfghanistanThe Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan, by Ben Macintyre A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, by Eric Newby Western forays into tribal Afghanistan go back some two centuries and seldom have produced good results. But they have resulted in some good books, both fascinating and funny. Josiah Harlan’s improbable life’s journey—from [...]