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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Farwell, Matt, author.     Subjects     Bergdahl, Bowe, 1986-     Bergdahl, Bowe, 1986- -- Trials, litigation, etc.     Soldiers -- United States -- Biography.     Afghan War, 2001-2021.     Trials (Military offenses) -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Farwell, Matt, author.       by title:      American cipher : Bo...         MARC Display

American cipher : Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. tragedy in Afghanistan / Matt Farwell and Michael Ames. by Farwell, Matt, author. New York : Penguin Press, 2019. Subjects Bergdahl, Bowe, 1986-   Bergdahl, Bowe, 1986- -- Trials, litigation, etc.   Soldiers -- United States -- Biography.   Afghan War, 2001-2021.   Trials (Military offenses) -- United States. ISBN:  9780735221048 (hardcover) : 0735221049 (hardcover) : Description:  388 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl left his platoon's base in eastern Afghanistan in the early hours of June 30, 2009. Since that day, easy answers to the many questions surrounding his case--why did he leave his post? What kinds of efforts were made to recover him from the Taliban? And why, facing a court martial, did he plead guilty to the serious charges against him?--have proved elusive. Taut in its pacing but sweeping in its scope, American Cipher is the riveting and deeply sourced account of the nearly decade-old Bergdahl quagmire--which, as journalists Matt Farwell and Michael Ames persuasively argue, is as illuminating an episode as we have as we seek the larger truths of how the United States lost its way in Afghanistan. The book tells the parallel stories of a young man's halting coming of age and a nation stalled in an unwinnable war, revealing the fallout that ensued when the two collided: a fumbling recovery effort that suppressed intelligence on Bergdahl's true location and bungled multiple opportunities to bring him back sooner; a homecoming that served to deepen the nation's already-vast political fissure; a trial that cast judgment on not only the defendant, but most everyone involved. The book's beating heart is Bergdahl himself--an idealistic, misguided soldier onto whom a nation projected the political and emotional complications of service. Based on years of exclusive reporting drawing on dozens of sources throughout the military, government, and Bergdahl's family, friends, and fellow soldiers, American Cipher is at once a meticulous investigation of government dysfunction and political posturing, a blistering commentary on America's presence in Afghanistan, and a heartbreaking story of a naïve young man who thought he could fix the world and wound up the tool of forces far beyond his understanding."--Dust jacket.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 958.10478 Bergdahl Fa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 958.10478 Bergdahl Fa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 958.10478 Bergdahl Fa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wahiawa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 958.10478 Bergdahl Fa Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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