Afghanistan
Tea With The Taliban
$29.99 – Paperback book / David Bateman
Fascinating, highly readable tales of travels in the troubled land of Afghanistan by award-winning New Zealand travel writer Ian Robinson. Tourists in Afghanistan are rare: very few have the courage to travel there in to... Buy or find out more →
Taliban
$24.95 – Paperback book / Corgi Books
Fifteen years ago, southern Afghanistan was in even greater chaos than it is now. The Russians, who had occupied the country throughout the 1980s, were long gone. The disparate ethnic and religious leaders who had united... Buy or find out more →
The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days In Afghanistan And Pakistan
$32.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Kim Barker is not your typical, impassive foreign correspondent — she is candid, self-deprecating, and funny. At first an awkward newbie in Afghanistan, she grows into a wisecracking, seasoned reporter with grave concern... Buy or find out more →
Seeds Of Terror How Heroin Is Bankrolling The Taliban And Alqaeda New Edition
$24.95 – Paperback book / Oneworld Pubn
Most Americans think of the Taliban and al Qaeda as a bunch of bearded fanatics fighting an Islamic crusade from caves in Afghanistan. But that doesn't explain their astonishing comeback along the Pakistan-Afghanistan bo... Buy or find out more →
The Photographer
$42.00 – Paperback book / First Run Feature
In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union. This graphic novel/photo-journal is a record of one reporter's arduous and dangerous journey through Afghanistan, accompanying the Doctors Without Borde... Buy or find out more →
The Honey Thief
$24.95 – Paperback book / Wild Dingo Press
'Moving effortlessly from the oral to the written, from folktale to modern-day fable, and from the earthly to the transcendent, this beautiful, life-affirming book probes the heart and soul of a remarkable culture, while... Buy or find out more →
Forbidden Lessons In A Kabul Guesthouse
$32.99 – Paperback book / Hachette
The true story of a truly courageous Afghan woman who returned to Afghanistan to deliver humanitarian aid to her people. Hailed by Oprah Winfrey for her bravery.
Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse is an inspirationa... Buy or find out more →
The Dressmaker Of Khair Khana
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
The remarkable story of an unlikley entrepreneur who, against all odds, saved her family and inspired her community in Afghanistan.
When the Taliban took control of Kabul, Kamela Sediqi and all the women of Kabul saw the... Buy or find out more →
Afgantsy: The Russians In Afghanistan 1979-1989
$59.99 – Hardcover book / Profile
In a timely and eye-opening book Rodric Braithwaite examines the Russian experience in that most recent war in Afghanistan (after Alexander's conquests and the many British imperial wars and skirmishes).
As a former amba... Buy or find out more →
Afghanistan Waiting For The Bus
$15.00 – Paperback book /
Political themes are common in these poems, though more often it is the snapshot of ordinary Afghan people affected by the ongoing war, and the international security assistance forces and international aid agencies whic... Buy or find out more →
Afghanistan Travel Guide
$39.95 – Paperback book / Lonely Planet
1st Edition / August 2007
Afghanistan was once known for its dramatic mountains and unparalleled hospitality, but sadly its image has become more closely associated with war and terrorism in recent years. But with the ri... Buy or find out more →
The Carpet Wars
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Perennial
The Carpet Wars is foreign correspondent Christopher Kremmer's riveting and timely account of a decade spent living, travelling and reporting from Asia and the Middle East.During that time he formed an obsession with car... Buy or find out more →
Afghanistan: Aid, Armies and Empires
$49.95 – Paperback book / I B Tauris
As the battle for Afghanistan intensifies, with humanitarian workers increasingly finding themselves on the frontline, aid expert Peter Marsden draws on decades of personal experience in the country to unravel the relati... Buy or find out more →
My Life With The Taliban
$45.00 – Hardcover book / Scribe Publications
This is the autobiography of Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, a senior former member of the Taliban. His memoirs, translated from Pashto, are more than just a personal account of his extraordinary life.
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The Places In Between
$24.95 – Paperback book / Picador
A brilliant account of a death defying walk through Afghanistan
Rory Stewart's sparsely poetic, highly acclaimed account of his walk across Afghanistan in January 2002 has been hailed as a modern classic of travel writin... Buy or find out more →
The Bookseller Of Kabul
$24.99 – Paperback book / Virago
For more than twenty years Sultan Khan defied the authorities to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned, and watched illiterate soldiers burn piles of his books in the street.
I... Buy or find out more →
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
War in the post-9/11 world is far different from what we expected it be. Counterinsurgency and protracted guerrilla warfare, not shock and awe, are the order of the day. David Kilcullen is the world’s foremost expert on ... Buy or find out more →
Kabul In Winter
$24.95 – Paperback book / Picador
Soon after the bombs stopped falling on Kabul, award-winning journalist and women's rights activist Ann Jones set out for the shattered city. This is her trenchant report from the city where she spent the next four winte... Buy or find out more →
The Afghanistan Wars
$45.00 – Paperback book / Palgrave
The current situation in Afghanistan is all too familiar, but its past remains unfamiliar to many. William Maley offers a valuable insight into Afghanistan's wars and the domestic, regional, and international politics th... Buy or find out more →
Empires Of Mud: Wars And Warlords Of Afghanistan
$55.95 – Hardcover book / Columbia Univ Pr
Warlords are charismatic leaders who exploit weak authorities to gain control of subnational areas. Nevertheless, warlords do in fact participate in state formation, and this book considers the dynamics of warlordism wit... Buy or find out more →
The Sewing Circles Of Herat
$24.95 – Paperback book / Flamingo
Ten years ago, Christina Lamb reported on the war the Afghan people were fighting against the Soviet Union. Now, back in Afghanistan, she has written an extraordinary memoir of her love affair with the country and its pe... Buy or find out more →
Ghost Wars: The Secret History Of The C.I.A., Afghanistan And Bin Laden
$26.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
The news-breaking book that has sent shockwaves through the White House, Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret involvement in al-Qaeada's evolution.
Prize-winning journalist Steve ... Buy or find out more →
A Thousand Splendid Suns
$24.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Tali... Buy or find out more →
The Good Soldiers
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
It was the last-chance moment of the war.
In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. It became known as ‘the surge’. ‘Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when pr... Buy or find out more →
Counterinsurgency
$29.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
David Kilcullen is one of the world’s most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare. A senior adviser to General David Petraeus in Iraq, his vision of war powerfully influenced America’s decision to re... Buy or find out more →
Afghanistan: A Cultural And Political History
$47.95 – Hardcover book / Princeton Univ Press
"Barfield's book will become the single best source on Afghan history and politics virtually overnight. His deep knowledge of Afghanistan enables him to range widely and knit together a very coherent narrative with a con... Buy or find out more →
The Swallows Of Kabul
$23.95 – Paperback book / Anchor
Set in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban, this extraordinary novel takes readers into the lives of two couples: Mohsen, who comes from a family of wealthy shopkeepers whom the Taliban has destroyed; Zunaira, his wife, ... Buy or find out more →
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism
$23.95 – Paperback book / Yale Univ Pr
Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban--the world’s most extreme and radical Islamic organization--into sharp focus in this enormously insightful book. He offers the only authoritative account... Buy or find out more →