TY - BOOK ID - 14597466 TI - The Dust of Kandahar : A Diplomat among Warriors in Afghanistan PY - 2016 SN - 9781682470794 PB - Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, DB - UniCat KW - AFGHAN WAR, 2001 KW - PERSONAL NARRATIVES, AMERICAN UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14597466 AB - This book provides a personal account of one diplomat's year of service in Afghanistan. Ambassador Addleton movingly describes the everyday human drama of the American soldiers, local tribal dignitaries, government officials, and religious leaders with whom he interacted and worked. The author's writing is at its most vivid in his firsthand account of the April 2013 suicide bombing outside a Zabul school that killed his translator, a fellow Foreign Service officer, and three American soldiers. The memory of this tragedy lingers over Addleton's journal entries, his prose offering poignant glimpses into the interior life of a U.S. diplomat stationed in harm's way. ER -