This is a book for our times, a pair of linked essays, the first, by Rory Stewart, on the troubled decade of Western intervention in Afghanistan, followed by the success story of the ten years of Western intervention in
Bosnia by Gerald Knaus. The authors write not for glory, or to secure a professorial chair, but out of desperation.
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