Boots on the Ground : The Fight to Liberate Afghanistan from Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, 2001-2002 (Hardcover)

from JoK

Disclaimer: The following review is based on reading an uncorrected proof; changes to form and/or content may occur before final publication. Boots on the Ground by Dick Camp provides a broad overview of approximately the first six months of U.S. operations in Afghanistan. The book relies almost ...

from LeonardIngram

This work is a very superficial "popular" history of the war in Afghanistan. I don't mean that in a totally negative way. I enjoyed this read very much. It gives a pretty good overview of the conflict and it's history without getting bogged down. The sidebars were very informative. Sometimes you ...

from Mareofthesea

Boots on the Ground reads like an academic paper. The author is very detailed and dry in his commentary regarding the efforts in the Afghanistan War in 2001-2. He seems to be afraid of giving his opinion, and the book is filled with random, distracting passages describing things such as weapons (...

from IslandDave

I received an advance copy of Boots on the Ground today from Early Reviewers and eagerly jumped in expecting an intense and enlightening narrative of the early years of the war in Afghanistan. After 50 pages, it was apparent that what I got instead was a meta-book report. The details in the first...

from bespen

Boots on the Ground, as the subtitle indicates, only covers events until 2002. The book does briefly cover events in Afghanistan from the Soviet invasion until 2001, to provide some background. While the material is natively interesting, the book is not. You need to work pretty hard to make war i...