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"Pagels’s story is for believers and non-believers alike

The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley BOTY_2025 and wild men descend fromCOLBY AWARD WINNER One of the most important books to come out of the Afghanistan war.Foreign Policy A saga of courage and futility, of valor and error and heartbreak.Rick Atkinson, author of the Liberation Trilogy and The British Are Coming Of the many battlefields on which U. S. troops and intelligence operatives fought in Afghanistan, one remote corner of the country stands as a microcosm of the American campaign: the Pech and its tributary valleys