AUGUST IN KABUL

Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut publication offers a remarkable record of this historic moment

As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul,
capital of Afghanistan. After a 20-year conflict with the United States,
its Western allies and a proxy Afghan government, the Islamic militant
group once aligned with al Qaeda was about to bury yet another foreign
foe in the graveyard of empires. And for the US, the superpower, this
was yet another foreign disaster. As cities and towns fell to the Taliban
in rapid succession, Western troops and embassy staff scrambled to flee
a country of which its government had lost control. To the world, Kabul
in August looked like Saigon in 1975.