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Author Gezari, Vanessa M., author.

Title The tender soldier : a true story of war and sacrifice / Vanessa M. Gezari.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2013.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  958.1047 GEZARI    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  958.1047 GEZ    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  958.1047 GEZ    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  958.104 GEZ    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  958.10471 GE    Check Shelf
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description x, 347 pages : map ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-327) and index.
Contents Election day -- What you don't know will kill you -- The tender soldier -- Maiwand -- The anthropology of us and them -- Hearts and minds -- Crime and punishment -- Good intentions -- The devil you don't know.
Summary Part of the Pentagon's most daring and controversial attempt since Vietnam to bring social science to the Afghanistan battlefield, three tough-minded American civilians find their humanity tested and their lives forever changed by this little-known mission.
Subject Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Campaigns -- Afghanistan -- De Maywand Kārīz.
Loyd, Paula.
United States. Army. Human Terrain System.
Counterinsurgency -- Afghanistan -- De Maywand Kārīz.
Applied anthropology -- Afghanistan.
Anthropologists -- United States -- Biography.
Cooper, Clint.
Ayala, Don.
Applied anthropology -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
Social sciences -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
ISBN 9781439177396 hardback $25.00
1439177392 hardback
9781439177419 (ebook)
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