Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan, Hardcover

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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-...

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

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