To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban

Originally published: New York: Grove Press, 2002, with the title The lion’s grave: dispatches from Afghanistan.

Jon Lee Anderson is an author and staff writer for The New Yorker. As a longtime observer of political violence and revolutionary movements, he has reported from many war zones over the years, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Angola, Somalia, Mali, Liberia. He has reported frequently from Latin America and profiled political leaders such as Augusto Pinochet, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro. Anderson also wrote a celebrated biography of the late Argentine revolutionary, Ernesto ＂Che＂ Guevara, and in the course of his research, discovered the long-concealed whereabouts of his secretly-buried body in Bolivia.