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'[The Ledger] is a clear-eyed analysis made with the surgical precision of two insiders who saw, firsthand, the legion of small ways that the war was lost when it could have been won.'
-- The Sunday Times'A failure to understand the ties that bind Afghanistan and its people underpins the west's 20-year struggle there, a history whose first draft is masterfully captured in The Ledger.'
-- Financial Times'The Ledger is not a book of dread and sensationalism. It is a cool and forensic dissection of what a disaster the search for Al-Qaeda following the attack on their Afghan hosts, the Taliban, was to become. [...] More than a mere polemic, this is a fine book.'
-- The Scotsman'[Written] by authors with deep knowledge and great expertise in their subjects, The Ledger [is] very useful in understanding how we got where we are.'
-- The Independent