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City of Soldiers: A Year of Life, Death and Surviv&hellip by
Kate Fearon This memoir of sixteen months spent in Helmand
Province promoting grassroots democracy and the rule of law is
an important and accessible contribution to understanding the
conflict in Afghanistan.  The author writes with sensitivity and
sympathy, describing the "terrible, quiescent, essential
stoicism" of the Afghan people. Her analysis of the conflict is
from the ground up, based on individuals she has met and events
she has witnessed. Again and again she notes that this society
and its people are more complex than simplistic political or
ideological divisions. She points to "the tension between the
constraining architecture of the social surface with that which
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