Afghanistan & Egypt in the time of the plague

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At the risk of beating this topic to death, I wanted to recommend two books written by journalists who spent years in Afghanistan over the past two decades.

The first is Dexter Filkins' "The Forever War":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foreve...kins_book)

The second is Christina Lamb's "Farewall Kabul":
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/books...-lamb.html

Neither was released all that recently (2008 & 2016, respectively), yet they are both rivetting, well written coverage of a country & war that few understood.