No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan Hardcover – 1 Mar 2012

Review

 “A superbly written, considered piece of war reportage, it will stand comparison with the very best of the last half-century.”

Frank Ledwidge, author of Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan

 “Hugely revealing … A brilliantly observed account of war in Afghanistan by an extraordinarily brave reporter.”

Jason Elliot, author of An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan

“Anderson deserves great credit for his achievement [and his] abundant reservoirs of sincerity, compassion and personal courage... An independent-minded, unflinchingly honest, and ultimately bleak portrayal of a doomed war effort.”

Jon Lee Anderson, staff editor at The New Yorker

“A tactile, gripping first-hand account of the heroic yet tragic efforts of allied troops to drive out the Taliban. A powerful read.”

Bing West, former US Assistant Secretary of Defense and prize-winning author of No True Glory

“Similar to Michael Herr's high-octane Vietnam War classic, Dispatches, Anderson delivers a gritty, brutal, realistic account of British and American troops on the Afghan frontlines in a bitter counterpoint to all the policy concessions and peace chatter.”

Publishers Weekly

 "[Anderson is] an unusually courageous war correspondent... with humor, compassion, and a fine eye for detail. An engrossing blow-by-blow account of the nuts and bolts of modern warfare.”
Kirkus

“A tour de force. Ben Anderson plunges the reader into the reality of the war in Afghanistan in all its horror.”
David Dimbleby, Acclaimed BBC Journalist and Presenter of Question Time

“Ben Anderson is the bravest journalist I know. Anyone interested in what life is really like on the front line in Afghanistan should read this book.”
Louis Theroux

“The truth about the Afghan war, from a brave and exceptionally honest reporter... Essential reading for anyone who wants to know what is really going on in Helmand.”
Sherard Cowper-Coles, former British Ambassador to Afghanistan

"I became gripped… a vivid contribution to the record of the conflict, which left me gasping at [Anderson's] courage."
Max Hastings, The Sunday Times

Review

"The best book from the frontline so far... Will do for Afghanistan what Michael Herr's Dispatches' did for Vietnam. If you thought it was bad in Helmand, you were wrong. Anderson shows that it is much worse than that."