To Lose a WarBy: Jon Lee Anderson Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker A book that is as deeply humane and profoundly rendered as any Ive read about Afghanistan, or any other war. Elliot Ackerman, New York Times Book Review From one of the great foreign correspondents of our time, author of some of the most essential reporting from Afghanistan from before 9 11 to the return of the Taliban to power in 2021, the first full accounting of that entire era,