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Fritz, Ian, 1990- author.
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Fritz, Ian, 1990-
United States. Air Force. Electronic Security Command -- Biography.
Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001- -- Personal narratives, American.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Communications.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Language.
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What the Taliban tol...
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What the Taliban told me / Ian Fritz.
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Fritz, Ian, 1990- author.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023
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Fritz, Ian, 1990-
United States. Air Force. Electronic Security Command -- Biography.
Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001- -- Personal narratives, American.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Communications.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Language.
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9781668010693 (hardcover) :
1668010690 (hardcover)
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288 pages ; 22 cm
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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Listen -- Flying, or the valley of death -- Before, or how to become a linguist -- Sapir-Whorf, or next to my heart -- Pashto, or experienced linguists -- Bullshit, or you'll only die tired -- Threats, or it's too cold to jihad -- Griffin, or you keep flying -- Home, or you look like more of a man -- Kandahar, or listening to Afghans -- Fear, or you can't go home again -- Anger, or you can't kill an idea -- Infinity, or what I wish I hadn't heard -- Tinnitus, or you seem fine now -- Reaping, or fuck 'em -- After, or you can't unkill them.
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When Ian Fritz joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn't been accepted into college thanks to an indifferent high school career. He'd too often slept through his classes as he worked long hours at a Chinese restaurant to help pay the bills for his trailer-dwelling family in Lake City, Florida. But the Air Force recognizes his potential and sends him to the elite Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, to learn Dari and Pashto, the main languages of Afghanistan. By 2011, Fritz was an airborne cryptologic linguist and one of only a tiny number of people in the world trained to do this job on low-flying gunships. He monitors communications on the ground and determines in real time which Afghans are Taliban and which are innocent civilians. This eavesdropping is critical to supporting Special Forces units on the ground, but there is no training to counter the emotional complexity that develops as you listen to people's most intimate conversations. Over the course of two tours, Fritz listens to the Taliban for hundreds of hours, all over the country night and day, in moments of peace and in the middle of battle. What he hears teaches him about the people of Afghanistan--Taliban and otherwise--the war, and himself. Fritz's fluency is his greatest asset to the military, yet it becomes the greatest liability to his own commitment to the cause.
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Hawaii State Library
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958.1047 Fritz Fr
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Mililani Public Library
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958.1047 Fritz Fr
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Salt Lake-Moanalua Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
958.1047 Fritz Fr
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