CANCELLED: Brian Williams on Living w/a CIA-Backed Anti-Taliban Warlord in Afghanistan
Working undercover for the CIA, History Professor Brian Glyn Williams made an epic journey to the remote high deserts of Afghanistan to live with the larger-than-life Mongol warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, the legendary warrior who led his horsemen in the slaughter and defeat their Taliban blood enemies. He will recount his adventures of living with the famed war chieftain, who became the focus of Williams’ book The Last Warlord and the subject of the riveting Hollywood film “12 Strong: The True Declassified Story of the Horse Soldiers,” which Williams advised on, and which starred Chris Hemsworth as leader of the Special Forces team that fought alongside Dostum.
Charlton College of Business Main Auditorium (CCB 149)
: UMassD Main Campus
Carol Hansen
chansen1@umassd.edu