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This book provides a personal account of one diplomat's year of service in Afghanistan. Ambassador Addleton movingly describes the everyday human drama of the American soldiers, local tribal dignitaries, government officials, and religious leaders with whom he interacted and worked. The author's writing is at its most vivid in his firsthand account of the April 2013 suicide bombing outside a Zabul school that killed his translator, a fellow Foreign Service officer, and three American soldiers. The memory of this tragedy lingers over Addleton's journal entries, his prose offering poignant glimpses into the interior life of a U.S. diplomat stationed in harm's way.

AFGHAN WAR, 2001 --- PERSONAL NARRATIVES, AMERICAN