Afghanistan, a land of stunning landscapes, deep-rooted cultures, and tumultuous history, has captivated the world for decades. Its unique position at the crossroads of empires has made it both a ...

Afghanistan, by Louis Dupree (features a great collection of Afghan proverbs) Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 ...

IN AFGHANISTAN: TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF BRITISH, RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN OCCUPATION By David Loyn Palgrave MacMillan, $27.95, 231 pages REVIEWED BY ROBERT F. DUNN This is a most timely book. As NATO ...

The role America has played in Afghanistan is largely unknown to Americans, ... Afghanistan: The Invisible History. Published: Jun. 07, 2009, 2:31 p.m. By . Michael Sears, community blogger ...

One of the books on Afghanistan, The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan, is by David Kilcullen, a former soldier from Australia, and Greg Mills, a South African academic.The Long War ...

Afghanistan at War. Afghanistan is many things. It may – or may not – be a graveyard of empires, depending on which end of the shovel you happen to be on. It is definitely one of the lands that ...

From NPR's 2020 Book Concierge, we offer four book recommendations for history buffs. Accessibility links. ... My name is Diaa Hadid, and I cover Pakistan and Afghanistan for NPR.

Here’s What History Can Teach Us About The US Withdrawal From Afghanistan Here’s What History Can Teach Us About The US Withdrawal From Afghanistan By Kevin Bell Posted on Feb 10, 2015 ...

A narrative history of what went wrong in Afghanistan, the book is based on interviews with more than 1,000 people who played direct roles in the war, as well as thousands of pages of documents ...

Like so many people, the novelist Khaled Hosseini watched Afghanistan fall to the Taliban over the past few days with horror and sadness. Though he has lived in the United States since 1980, he ...