What the Taliban Told Me by Ian Fritz (Hardback Book)

Simon & Schuster

A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost.\nWhen Ian Fritz joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn\u2019t been accepted into college thanks to an indifferent high school career. He\u2019d too often slept through his classes as he worked long hours at a Chinese restaurant to help pay the bills for his trailer-dwelling family in Lake City, Florida.\n But the Air Force recognizes his potential and sends him to the elite Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, to learn Dari and Pashto, the main languages of Afghanistan. By 2011, Fritz was an airborne cryptologic linguist and one of only a tiny number of people in the world trained to do this job on low-flying gunships. He monitors communications on the ground and\n\nWhat the Taliban Told Me\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that the price ad;