The American War in Afghanistan: A History, Hardcover - Carter Malkasian

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

The story of NATO's disastrous occupation of Afghanistan, and how it repeated the mistakes of the Soviet occupation which preceded itPublisher: Ver...

Reducere. If you want to understand Afghanistan, writes Carter Malkasian, you need to understand what has happened on the ground, in the villages and country...

DescriptionChosen as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times and the Evening StandardIt could have been a very different story.British and US forces...

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

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Reducere. After a brief survey of the great empires in Afghanistan--the campaigns of Alexander the Great, the British in the era of Kipling, and the late Sov...

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...

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...

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IN 1991 THE UNITED STATES trounced the Iraqi army in battle only to stumble blindly into postwar turmoil. Then in 2003 the United States did it aga...

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A sharply focused, fine-grained analysis of one critical province during the Vietnam War, Robert Thompson's work demonstrates how pacification is b...

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The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served ...

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A New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Military Times Best Book of the Year J. Kael Weston spent seven years on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan worki...

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...

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In the First Anglo-Afghan War of 1839 to 1842, considered the most infamous of all colonial wars, only Dr. Brydon survived out of the 13, 000-to-20...

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Britain at War in Colour showcases 100 of the best rare and original colour images of the Second World War from the IWM photograph collection. Feat...

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

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This hard-hitting but heartwarming book tells of war and confilict in Afghanistan over the past ten years through the eyes of two fictional childre...

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