Afghanistan

  • Afghanistan: A Distant War

    This remarkable volume of photographs is accompanied by insightful texts from experts on Afghanistan and the Taliban. The images themselves are captioned with places, dates, and Nickelsberg's own extensive commentary.

  • Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know
    By Barnett Rubin

    The book analyzes the local, national, regional, and global shifts on social structure and the economy that perpetuated violent conflict while transforming its structure.

  • Afghanistan: How the West Lost Its Way
    By Alex Marshall, Tim Bird

    Examines why the West has failed to achieve its objectives in Afghanistan, discussing the country's drug trade, political corruption, troubled relations with Pakistan, and harsh terrain, and the lessons about nation building that can be ...

  • Afghanistan: A Military History from the Ancient Empires to the Great Game
    By Ali Ahmad Jalali

    This is the first comprehensive study in any language published on the millennia-long competition for domination and influence in one of the key regions of the Eurasian continent.

  • Afghanistan: Transition Under Threat
    By Mark Sedra, Geoffrey Hayes

    By the fall of 2008, seven years after the fall of the Taliban regime, the future of Afghanistan's post-conflict transition looks more uncertain than ever.

  • Afghanistan: A New History
    By Martin Ewans

    Sir Martin Ewans, former Head of the British Chancery in Kabul, puts into an historical and contemporary context the tragic events that have impinged on Afghanistan in the past half century

  • Afghanistan: A Modern History
    By Angelo Rasanayagam

    Today Afghanistan sits at the pivot of a region where a new Great Game is taking shape as the US positions itself into becoming a major player in Central Asia.

  • Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires - A New History of the Borderland
    By David Isby

    A startling history of modern Afghanistan: the story of a country caught in a vortex of terror.

  • Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History
    By Thomas Barfield

    Thomas Barfield introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them.

  • Afghanistan: A Country Study
    By Donald M. Seekins, Richard F. Nyrop

    Afghanistan: A Country Study

  • Afghanistan: Realities of War and Rebuilding
    By Bahaudin Mujtaba, Sayed Jawad

    Several decades of war and its subsequent civil turmoil has brought devastating destruction throughout Afghanistan from various sources. Unfortunately, due to the circumstances beyond the control of ordinary citizens, the...

  • Afghanistan: The Mirage of Peace
    By Chris Johnson, Jolyon Leslie

    Drawing on long experience of living and working in Afghanistan, Chris Johnson and Jolyon Leslie examine what the changes of recent years have meant in terms of Afghans' sense of their own identity and hopes for the future.

  • Afghanistan: A Land in Shadow
    By Chris Johnson

    This Country Profile presents a concise account of the historical and political background to the present situation in Afghanistan; a country at the meeting-point of south, west, and central Asia....

  • Afghanistan: Land of Conflict and Beauty
    By John Charles Griffiths

    Set against Afghanistan's deep-rooted religious, ethnic, and social divisions, this comprehensive history examines a nation that for centuries has been in constant conflict. Beginning with early Persian, Greek, and Mongol...

  • Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion in Perspective
    By Anthony Arnold

    In Afghanistan's Two-Party Communism, Anthony Arnold brings these dramatic developments to life, examining Parcham and Khalq in the context of the cultural, ethnic, and class factors that distinguish their leaders and separate ...

  • Afghanistan: A Tour of Duty

    An unforgettable portfolio of more than 100 color and black and white images documenting ordinary British soldiers on a routine tour of duty in Afghanistan

  • Afghanistan: The End of the U.S. Footprint and the Rise of the Taliban Rule
    By Hollie McKay

    Welcome to Afghanistan after the cataclysmic fall. The band-aid over the bullet wound has been ripped off, and "Afghanistan" will guide you into the maze of dust, debris, and delicacy the way no journalistic endeavor has done before.

  • Afghanistan: Building Stability, Avoiding Chaos
    By United States. Congress, United States Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations

    Afghanistan : building stability, avoiding chaos : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, June 26, 2002.

  • Afghanistan: Building Stability, Avoiding Chaos
    By United States Senate, United States Congress, Committee on Foreign Relations

    Afghanistan : building stability, avoiding chaos : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, June 26, 2002.

  • Afghanistan: Building Stability, Avoiding Chaos : Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress,...
    By United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations

    Afghanistan: Building Stability, Avoiding Chaos : Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress,...