{"product_id":"9783031413063","title":"Renewing the American Narrative: A Witness Account of the War in Afghanistan","description":"\u003ch1\u003eRenewing the American Narrative: A Witness Account of the War in Afghanistan\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eBurke, Carol\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e​This book focuses on the war in Afghanistan. In 2010 and 2011, the author took a leave from her faculty position at the University of California, Irvine to train and then deploy as a cultural advisor with two U.S. Army combat units in Afghanistan. Her account begins with the U.S. Army’s four-month training program for cultural advisors, follows her deployment, much of it on missions to remote and volatile areas far from brigade headquarters, and concludes with her uneasy return home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe examines the everyday lives of Americans sent to conduct a war of counterinsurgency, including their sexual exploits on base, their superstitions, even the heroic accounts that military contractors recount in their personal stories of past wars, stories that are sometimes a little too good to be true. In turn, she explores the views of ordinary Afghans to this American occupation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2025-03-19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783031413063\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-031-41304-9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 223\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46187217191052,"sku":"9783031413063","price":116.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031413063.jpg?v=1776782007","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783031413063","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}