Afghanistan

Reducere. In Hazera Nation, Nadera Jamili and Ghulamreza Jamili's unique combination of research and personal experience clarify the importance of the Hazara...

Reducere. For over 2, 500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads for armies and has witnessed history-shaping clashe...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Greg MillsNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 189 x 38Cover type: Paperbac...

The story of the six-day battle that began the War in Afghanistan and how it set the scene for twenty years of conflict.Publisher: Welbeck Publishi...

Reducere. In Quagmire you'll find a range of voices--men and women, military and civilian--and a range of perspectives from the homeland, the combat zone, an...

Reducere. After September 11th, Ahmed Rashid's crucial book Taliban introduced American readers to that now notorious regime. In this new work, he returns to...

Losing Afghanistan features twenty-one critical essays by analysts, politicians, soldiers, commentators and practitioners - interspersed with power...

For as long as there have been armed forces there have been camp followers - the families who move with the military to stay with their men.

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Reducere. Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan To what extent did America's best int...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the summer of 2006, a Canadian army patrol travelling through Afghanistan's Panjwayi region surprised an unexpectedly large force of ...

Reducere. The basis of the film starring Orlando Bloom and Scott Eastwood, The Outpost is the heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of America's deadliest...

This is a new, revised edition of the universally acclaimed and best-selling account of the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban movement - the most radi...

A first-hand account of the Afghan-Soviet war and its role in rallying Islamists from across the globe. Selected as one of the 'Biggest Non-Fiction...

Publisher: RANDAuthor(s): Leila MahnadNumber of pages: 70Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 215 x 280 x 3Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera...

Reducere. Awards🏆Nominee (2013) - Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction - (Nonfiction)Contributor(s): Author: William DalrympleA Best Book of the Year: The Ec...

A Few Bad Men is the incredible true story of an elite team of U.S. Marines set up to take the fall for Afghanistan war crimes they did not commit-...

Reducere. "America had a secret weapon, " writes Steve Call of the period immediately following September 11, 2001, as planners contemplated the invasion of ...

DescriptionHer world came crashing down when she got the call saying her brother had been killed. Major Samuel Griffith was one of the most beloved...

The first-ever biography of "The Oprah of Afghanistan": refugee, pop singer, and champion of women's rights who continues to fight for change.

Reducere. L'histoire vraie de quatre tireurs d' lite dans le feu de l'action. Ils combattaient l'insurrection des talibans. Ils taient dans les montagnes, da...

An award-winning military journalist tells the amazing stories of twenty-five soldiers who've won the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military...

The Afghanistan File, written by the former head of Saudi Arabian Intelligence, tells the story of his Department's involvement in Afghanistan from...

In a piercing analysis, former senior British diplomat Arthur Snell reveals the role the United Kingdom has played in raising tension and creating ...

Reducere. As a young man, the author unfolds his profound and vibrant reflections of his luminous, candid, and intensely personal account of living in rural ...

An Authoritative study which explores how after years of fighting each other for South Asia, Russia and Britain started to lose their influence in ...

This book offers a new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, exploring the conflict both within and beyond the framework of the Col...

Analyses how Islamic State hopes to establish a new bulwark in Central Asia and Pakistan, supplanting Al-Qaeda in AfghanistanPublisher: C Hurst & C...

Publisher: DRA PublishingAuthor(s): David ReynoldsIllustration(s): 300 illustrationsNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 213 x 306...

Reducere. A haunting, fast-paced war memoir, Chasing Alexander is Christopher Martin's account of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A failing college student...

Counter Jihad is a sweeping account of America's military campaigns in the Islamic world. Revising our understanding of what was once known as the ...

A former senior mujahidin fighter teams up with an ex-counter terrorism analyst in this remarkable account from the frontlines of the jihad

Reducere. The groundbreaking investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about A...

Reducere. DescriptionApproximately 2.5 million men and women have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in the service of the U.S. War on Terror. Marian Eide and ...

DescriptionBuilding the Nation draws from foreign-policy reports and interviews with U.S. military officers to investigate recent U.S.-led efforts ...

Reducere. This is the extraordinary story of Queen Goharshad, a 15th century monarch, who many historians now believe was the most powerful woman in world hi...

Reducere. Just as U. S. soldiers and diplomats pulled out of Afghanistan, supposedly concluding their role and responsibility in the two-decade conflict, the...

Reducere. DescriptionThe story of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is well known: the expansionist Communists overwhelmed a poor country as a means of re...

The first authoritative history of American's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar-practitioners. The American war in Afghanistan, whi...

Florian Weigand investigates legitimacy and its absence in Afghanistan. He shows that what matters in conflict zones is dignity: People judge autho...

Reducere. Gritty, harrowing and full of courage, a testimony to the men and woman from the council estates of Britain who lived and died in the longest campa...

Reducere. Come along with your friends from Sesame Street and explore Afghanistan! Shop at outdoor markets, snack on pomegranates, play volleyball, and more.

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Reducere. "This book is OUTSTANDING The Author has seen some really exciting times in his life, in addition to some WOW flight hours. I read this in two days...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Parliamentary Researcher Philip A (House of Commons) BerryNumber of pages: 264Collection: Edinburgh...

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What compels a person to strap a vest loaded with explosives onto his body and blow himself up in a crowded street? In this book, th author argues ...

Reducere. The inspiration for the major motion picture 12 Strong from Jerry Bruckheimer, starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon. From the New York Time...

Reducere. Grappling with centuries-old feuds, defeating a shrewd insurgency, and navigating the sometimes paralyzing bureaucracy of the U.S. military are iss...

In the summer of 2006, a Canadian army patrol travelling through Afghanistan's Panjwayi region surprised an unexpectedly large force of Taliban fig...

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Reducere. A compelling and informed observation of the truth of Canada's war, from a dedicated Canadian doctor Unusually for a Canadian Forces physician, Ray...

Reducere. The Taliban made piety a business of the state, and thereby intervened in the daily lives and social interactions of Afghan women. Pious Peripherie...

Reducere. The story of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is well known: the expansionist Communists overwhelmed a poor country as a means of reaching a wa...

Reducere. Central Asia--a vast and remote area of steppe, semi-desert, and mountains separating Europe from eastern Asia--is home to a diversity of birds. Bi...

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Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016Investigates the causes, conduct, and consequences of the recent American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Und...

Describes the events surrounding the Soviet invasion in 1979 and the encounter between the military superpower and the poorly armed Afghans.

Publisher: Ishi PressAuthor(s): Ismail SloanIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsNumber of pages: 210Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 151 x...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Ashley JacksonNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 147 x 223 x 35Cover type: Hard...

Reducere. Peter Dale Scott's brilliantly researched tour de force illuminates the underlying forces that drive U.S. global policy from Vietnam to Colombia an...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Alex ConteNumber of pages: 330Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 157 x 232 x 22Cover type: Paperback / sof...

DescriptionBEYOND AFGHANISTAN €" The Struggle of the Refugees is a photojournalistic essay about the unaccompanied young refugees who came from Afg...

Publisher: Indiana University PressIllustration(s): 16 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 456Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 152 x 22...

In 2012, Specialist E.E. Summerfield and the 2-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment were deployed to the Kandahar province of Afghanistan. This book p...

Publisher: Verlag Barbara BudrichAuthor(s): Haqmal DaudzaiNumber of pages: 330Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 148 x 210 x 21Cover type: Paperback...

Afghanistan In Ink uses a wide and largely unknown corpus of twentieth century Afghan Dari and Pashto literature to show not only how Afghans have ...

So-called Islamic State began to appear in what it calls Khorasan (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, Iran and India) in 2014. Reports of its pre...

In 2006, Texas businessman, historian, and photographer Bill Wright was encouraged - though not officially invited - by the US Department of State ...

How do warlords survive and even thrive in contexts that are explicitly set up to undermine them? How do they rise after each fall? Warlord Surviva...