Book Series: Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear

By Paula Bronstein

While the media have largely moved on from these stories, Paula Bronstein remains passionately committed to bearing witness to the lives of the Afghan people.

Afghanistan: A Russian Soldier's Story

By Vladislav Tamarov

Tamarov was drafted into the Soviet army at the age of nineteen and sent to Afghanistan. He recorded his 621 days in the war with a camera and a diary.

Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

By Mūzah-ʼi Kābul

Features the cultural and historical treasures of Afghanistan that were smuggled out of the National Museum by guards, curators, and antiquities lovers, who protected them from destruction by the Soviets and the Taliban.

Afghanistan: The people

By Erinn Banting

Explores how the history, climate, geography, ethnology, wars, and religion of Afghanistan have shaped the customs and practices of modern daily life in the mountains, deserts, and cities.

Afghanistan

By Jovanka J. Milivojevic

Describes the geography, history, government, economy, people, lifestyle, religion, language, arts, leisure, festivals, and food of Afghanistan.

Afghanistan: A New History

By Martin Ewans

Reviews the emergence and fall of the Taliban, their ideology and their place within Islam, and examines Afghanistan's relevance to issues relating to Islamic extremism, the international drugs trade and international terrorism.

Afghanistan: Forging Civilizations Along the Silk Road

By Joan Aruz, Elisabetta Valtz Fino

These contributions -- in response to the reappearance of the magnificent hidden treasures from Afghanistan and their exhibition -- have shed new light on the significance of these works and have reinvigorated the discussion of the arts and ...

Afghanistan: A Bibliography

By María Ángeles Gallego, C. Heather Bleaney

This up-to-date, comprehensive, thematically indexed bibliography devoted to Afghanistan now and yesterday will helps readers to efficiently find their way in the massive secondary literature available. Following the pattern established...

Afghanistan: A Bibliography

By Heather Bleaney

This up-to-date, comprehensive, thematically indexed bibliography devoted to Afghanistan now and yesterday will help readers to efficiently find their way in the massive secondary literature available.

Afghanistan: A Bibliography

By C. H. Bleaney

Afghanistan: A Bibliography

Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban

By Stephen Tanner

Originally published in 2002, Stephen Tanner's Afghanistan has now been completely updated to include the crucial turn of events since America first entered the country.

Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World

By Fredrik Talmage Hiebert

This lavish volume not only focuses on the cultural significance of the objects but also relays the story of their discovery, excavation, and heroic rescue in modern-day Afghanistan.