City of soldiers

Description:

Behind the headlines, the strategies, the surges, what is life really like in Afghanistan? What is it like to live and work there as a civilian on state-building with its people, fighting the Taliban with flip-charts and pens, not guns? In her account of sixteen months in the capital of Helmand province, Lashkar Gah, working for the UK-led Provincial Reconstruction Team, Kate Fearon records everyday life on the frontline. Amidst the violence she unearths extraordinary stories of how ordinary...

subjects: Politics and government,  Social life and customs,  Description and travel,  Women political consultants,  Postwar reconstruction,  Biography,  Afghanistan, politics and government,  Afghanistan, social life and customs,  Afghanistan, description and travel,  Afghanistan, biography

People: Kate Fearon

Places: Helmand,  Afghanistan,  Lashkar Gāh (Afghanistan),  Helmand River Valley (Afghanistan)

Times: 21st century