About the Book
Title: The Hooligans of Kandahar
Author: Joseph Kassabian
Genre: Nonfiction / War Memoir
During the peak years
of the Afghanistan War, a group of soldiers is dropped by helicopter into the
remote mountains outside of Kandahar City. Mismanaged and overlooked by
command, how they survive is largely up to them. In the birthplace of the
Taliban, some men lose their sanity, others their humanity. They are The
Hooligans.
Written in the months
and years following his deployment, Joseph Kassabian recounts his time in the
isolated and dangerous country of Afghanistan. Pulling no punches, The
Hooligans of Kandahar is a sobering, saddening, and often sarcastic first-hand
account of America's War on Terror.
Links
Amazon (Paperback): https://www.amazon.com/Hooligans-Kandahar-Joseph-Kassabian/dp/0692754695/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1496313455&sr=8-1
Excerpt
At some point during the night, all hell broke loose. Guns started
cracking to life. Machine guns and rockets started ripping through the air all
over. Tracer rounds started tearing through the night from all sides about one
hundred yards in front of them. They had no idea what was going on and no one
was actually shooting at them. No one seemed to know that they were there. It
was like they stumbled upon some random turf war in the middle of
nowhere. The various militant groups that operated in our area—a strange
mix of Islamic insurgents, smugglers, and gangs—routinely tried to kill each
other. The Afghan security forces would shoot at anything that went bump in the
night. It could have easily been two different Afghan Police patrols shooting
at each other.
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