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    The Afghanistan Papers by Craig Whitlock

    Littoral Librarian

    In a master stroke of timing, Craig Whitlock (Washington Post reporter, winner of three Pulitzers)  has a new book about the war released as the last U.S. troops depart Kabul. My view of the war was that it was a quagmire, and we should have left years ago…and OMG reading The Afghanistan Papers made me …

    Crusade and Jihad by William Polk

    Littoral Librarian

    The subtitle of William Polk’s Crusade and Jihad really grabbed me: “The thousand-year war between the Muslim world and the Global North.” Maybe, I thought, THIS will help me understand the mess in the Middle East, the hatred of Muslims that is not only overt but seemingly encouraged under the current US Administration, and just …