About the book
War & Peace & War begins with Andrew North's account of being abducted by the Taliban in 2022. By then, he had been covering Afghanistan for 20 years and his book brings together his own reporting with the experiences of five Afghans from different walks of life to tell the story of the country's long wars with foreign powers and the return of the Taliban.
Published by Ithaka Press in the United Kingdom and Trafalgar Square-IPG in the United States.
Listen to the author read an excerpt of the audio book
Andrew North is an award-winning journalist and former BBC Afghanistan correspondent. He also spent many years based in Iraq and has reported from across the Middle East and Asia. Andrew now contributes to a wide range of media outlets and also sketches; War & Peace & War is illustrated with his own drawings.