Book Excerpt
At some point during the night, all hell
broke loose. Guns started cracking to life. Machine guns and rockets started
ripping through the air all over. Tracer rounds started tearing through the
night from all sides about one hundred yards in front of them. They had no idea
what was going on and no one was actually shooting at them. No one seemed to
know that they were there. It was like they stumbled upon some random turf war
in the middle of nowhere. The various militant groups that operated in our
area—a strange mix of Islamic insurgents, smugglers, and gangs—routinely tried
to kill each other. The Afghan security forces would shoot at anything that
went bump in the night. It could have easily been two different Afghan Police
patrols shooting at each other.
About the Book
Title: The Hooligans of KandaharAuthor: Joseph Kassabian
Genre: Nonfiction / War Memoir
During the peak years of the Afghanistan War, a group of soldiers is dropped by helicopter into the remote mountains outside of Kandahar City. Mismanaged and overlooked by command, how they survive is largely up to them. In the birthplace of the Taliban, some men lose their sanity, others their humanity. They are The Hooligans.
Written in the months and years following his deployment, Joseph Kassabian recounts his time in the isolated and dangerous country of Afghanistan. Pulling no punches, The Hooligans of Kandahar is a sobering, saddening, and often sarcastic first-hand account of America’s War on Terror.
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