The Hardest Place - Wesley Morgan Audiobook

Written by Wesley Morgan
Read by Mark Deakins
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

General Information
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Title: The Hardest Place
Subtitle: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley
Author: Wesley Morgan
Narrator: Mark Deakins
Audiobook Copyright: 2021
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780593286791
Subjects: History, Politics, Military, Nonfiction

File Information
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Media Format: MP3
Total Files: 21
Total Size: 589 MB
Bitrate: 64 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Channels: Stereo

Book Description
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“The definitive account of America’s heroic but ultimately doomed
effort in one of Afghanistan’s most rugged regions.”—Sebastian Junger,
author of Tribe

“A saga of courage and futility, of valor and error and
heartbreak.”—Rick Atkinson, author of the Liberation Trilogy
When we think of the war in Afghanistan, chances are we’re thinking of
a small, remote corner of the country where American military action
has been concentrated: the Pech and its tributary valleys in Kunar and
Nuristan provinces. The rugged, steep terrain and thick forests made
the region a natural hiding spot for targets in the American war on
terror, from Osama bin Laden to the Islamic State, and it has been the
site of constant U.S. military activity for nearly two decades. Even
as the U.S. presence in Afghanistan transitions to a drone war, the
Pech has remained at the center of it, a testbed for a new method of
remote warfare.
Wesley Morgan first visited the Pech in 2010, while he was still a
college student embedding with military units as a freelancer. By
then, the Pech and its infamous tributary the Korengal had become
emblematic of the war, but Morgan found that few of the troops
fighting there could explain why their remote outposts had been built.
In The Hardest Place, he unravels the history those troops didn’t
know, captures the culture and reality of the war through both
American and Afghan eyes, and reports on the snowballing American
missteps that made each unit’s job harder than the last as storied
outfits like Marines, paratroopers, Rangers, Green Berets, and SEALs
all took their turn.
Through reporting trips, hundreds of interviews with Americans and
Afghans, and documentary research, Morgan writes vividly of large-
scale missions gone awry, years-long hunts for single individuals, and
the soldiers, Marines, commandos, and intelligence operatives who
cycle through, along with several who return again and again to the
same slowly evolving fight.
As the war drags on through its third presidential administration,
Morgan concludes that we’ve created a status quo that could last
forever in the Pech, with the military and intelligence agencies
always in search of the next target.