One of the most unexpected military occurrences in recent memory will be the departure of Kabul in August 2021. After 20 years of military warfare, coalition forces withdrew from Afghanistan in a chilling reenactment of the tragic British retreat from Kabul in 1842. The world was astonished by the following fall of the Afghan government and its army as a resurgent Taliban assembled its forces and took control of the whole nation. Many Afghans who had cooperated with the allies were abandoned to the Taliban's pitiful mercy. A small foreign task group embarked on a risky mission to evacuate as many Afghans and their families as possible as the Taliban went door to door to execute "collaborators".? Drawing on a wide range of first-hand accounts - the politicians and officers who planned the trans-continental rescue, the young soldiers who were faced with the unenviable task of keeping a crowd of thousands of desperate people at bay, former interpreters and soldiers of the Afghan Special Forces who made it out - Escape from Kabul is the harrowing true story of Operation Pitting and the Kabul airlift.