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.

In an excerpt from “The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War,” Craig Whitlock details how the Bush administration hid the truth about an attack targeting Dick Cheney, amid fears it ...

In 1982, five years before the release of his first novel, “You Bright and Risen Angels,” William T. Vollmann wrote “An Afghanistan Picture Show,” a book about his efforts to help the ...

Khaled Hosseini in Jordan in 2018. The best-selling author was born in Afghanistan, and several of his books are rooted in its history. Credit ...