August in Kabul

America’s Last Days in Afghanistan

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Pub Date 18 May 2023 | Archive Date 31 May 2023

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An award-winning journalist’s firsthand account of the US evacuation of Kabul in 2021.

As night fell on August 15, 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. After a twenty-year conflict with the United States, its Western allies, and a proxy Afghan government, the Islamic militant group once aligned with al Qaeda was about to bury yet another foreign foe in the graveyard of empires. And for the US, it was yet another foreign disaster. As cities and towns fell to the Taliban in rapid succession, Western troops and embassy staff scrambled to flee a country of which its government had lost control.

August in Kabul is the remarkable record of how America's longest mission came to an abrupt and humiliating end, told through the eyes of Afghans whose lives have been turned upside down: a young woman who dreams of a university education; a presidential staffer who tries desperately to hold things together as the government collapses around him; a prisoner in the notorious Bagram Prison who suddenly finds himself free when prison guards abandon their post. Andrew Quilty was one of only a handful of Western journalists who stayed in Kabul as the city fell. This is his stunning account of those dramatic final days.

Andrew Quilty is an Australian investigative reporter and photojournalist. He is the recipient of nine Walkley Awards, including the Gold Walkley, for his work in Afghanistan, where he was based from 2013 to 2022. He has also received the George Polk Award, the World Press Photo Award, and the Overseas Press Club of America award for his investigation into massacres committed by a CIA-backed Afghan militia.

An award-winning journalist’s firsthand account of the US evacuation of Kabul in 2021.

As night fell on August 15, 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. After a twenty-year...


Advance Praise

“A vital eyewitness account by one of the few Western journalists to stay behind in Kabul throughout the evacuation. Quilty brings those hectic days in August to life on the page.” —Matthieu Aikins, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Naked Don’t Fear the Water


"Few foreign journalists have put in as much time, or as much heart, into Afghanistan over the past decade as Andrew Quilty. His dedication and integrity has been unwavering even in face of great danger, hardship and pressure. His work in exposing the wrongdoing committed by US-backed forces is unparalleled, and anyone wishing to understand the West's defeat after twenty years of war should read this book." —Jessica Donati, author of Eagle Down


"The definitive account of America's catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Blending courageous on-the-ground reporting with meticulous research, August in Kabul offers an authoritative and devastating answer to anyone who has wondered, How could this have happened? Quilty was not just in the mob outside of the airport as the last American aircraft left Kabul; he'd been living in the country, covering the events leading up to that moment, for the previous nine years. Only someone with Quilty's deep experience could have written such a moving and revelatory chronicle with such empathy and insight." —Luke Mogelson, author of The Storm is Here

“A vital eyewitness account by one of the few Western journalists to stay behind in Kabul throughout the evacuation. Quilty brings those hectic days in August to life on the page.” —Matthieu Aikins...


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ISBN 9781350370319
PRICE $27.00 (USD)
PAGES 272

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