Hopeless But Optimistic: Journeying Through America's Endless War in Afghanistan

by Douglas A. Wissing

Book Overview

Award-winning journalist Douglas A. Wissing's poignant and eye-opening journey across insurgency-wracked Afghanistan casts an unyielding spotlight on greed, dysfunction, and predictable disaster while celebrating the everyday courage and wisdom of frontline soldiers, idealistic humanitarians, and resilient Afghans. As Wissing hauls a hundred pounds of body armor and pack across the Afghan warzone in search of the ground truth, US officials frantically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253022851
• ISBN13: 9780253022851
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"