Thousands of Afghans who had worked with the allies were left to the meagre mercy of the Taliban.Īs the Taliban went door to door to execute 'collaborators', a small international task force set out on a daring mission to evacuate as many Afghans and their families as possible.ĭrawing on a wide range of first-hand accounts - the politicians and officers who planned the trans-continental rescue, the young soldiers who were faced with the unenviable task of keeping a crowd of thousands of desperate people at bay, former interpreters and soldiers of the Afghan Special Forces who made it out - Escape from Kabul is the harrowing true story of Operation Pitting and the Kabul airlift.Įndurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Explorationġ00 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood. The subsequent collapse of the Afghan government and its army shocked the world, as a resurgent Taliban gathered its forces and swept across the country. In an eerie replay of the disastrous British retreat from Kabul in 1842, coalition troops withdrew from Afghanistan after twenty years of military campaigning. A fascination with the deeds of the early explorers, a history degree in the bag, an army career already planned and a shoestring budget of £750 – including for the flight home – he was determined to find out more about the countries of the Caucasus and beyond – and meet the people who lived and worked there.ĮASTERN HORIZONS is a true traveller’s tale in the tradition of the best of the genre, populated by a cast of eccentric characters from mujahideen fighters to the Russian mafia.The evacuation of Kabul in August 2021 will go down in military history as one of the most unexpected events in modern times. Levison Wood was only 22 when he decided to hitch-hike from England to India through Russia, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, but he wasn’t the conventional follower of the hippy trail. Then read on a sun-lounger, between dozes, wishing you were doing those terribly adventurous things – which being secretly glad you’re not.’ Duncan Craig, Sunday Times ‘Download Levison Wood’s Silk Road odyssey, Eastern Horizons, onto your splash-proof kindle. BY THE AUTHOR OF WALKING THE HIMALAYAS, WINNER OF THE 2016 EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
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