Afghanistan Books


Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time Best Price: $7.04 I wish I could give this book more than 5 stars. The story about an average man, Greg...	Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 Best Price: $11.99 This book left me speechless. Once again, I am reminded of the sacrifice of a few for the...	The Places In Between Best Price: $2.82 A tough slog through a primitive place by an intrepid Englishman. I don't require too much more...	Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia Best Price: $2.00 This fellow is an arm chair quack. He grew up in Pakistan, but that's all about it. Now he makes...	The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban Best Price: $6.32 "The Punishment of Virtue" gives the reader great insight into the political...



Roberts Ridge: A Story of Courage and Sacrifice on Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan Best Price: $3.00 This book pays a great tribute to American commandos during a battle on a mountain high...	Afghanistan: A Military History From Alexander The Great To The Fall Of The Taliban Best Price: $8.64 I highly recommend this book to the general reader--it's written in very readable and enjoyable...	Afghanistan: A Short History of Its People and Politics Best Price: $8.44 I liked this book, had no problem reading it, and recommend it. Presumably when reviewers refer...	First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan Best Price: $4.03 I purchased this book because I heard reviews from soldiers who served in Iraq &...	Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History Best Price: $7.99 This book was really interesting at first, but I couldn't keep reading beyond a few hundred...



Militant Tricks: Battlefield Ruses of the Islamic Insurgent Best Price: $10.17 Would you go hiking without a map? Would you work on your car without a manual? Then why would...	Opium Season: A Year on the Afghan Frontier Best Price: $4.50 I just retired as a USAID Foreign Service Officer after 26 years of service. Although I didn't...	Danger Close: Tactical Air Controllers in Afghanistan and Iraq (Texas a&M University Military History) Best Price: $18.74 As a member of our USAF and knowing several TACP Airmen, this book really put into light what...	The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan Best Price: $5.00 I read this book in Husaybah, Iraq on the bloodiest of my three combat tours with Third...	Bear Went over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan Best Price: $31.50 This book has some amazing statistics in the prelude and the individual accounts from russian...

Afghan Guerrilla Warfare: In the Words of the Mujahideen Fighters Best Price: $14.50 This book is exactly what it says it is and it describes specific military encounters in great...	Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan (Columbia/Hurst) Best Price: $15.60 Ahmed Rashid's "Taliban" is the definitive book on the Taliban pre-2001, and there is...	Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures Best Price: $18.74 Almost 30 years ago, a precious trove of art was spirited away from the National Museum of...	Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families, Updated Edition (Research Division Report / National Endowment for the Arts) Best Price: $10.39 Operation Homecoming is the result of a major initiative launched by the National Endowment for...	The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan Best Price: $17.02 This book is extremely well written and is a fount of information. It is a must for anyone...

Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families Best Price: $7.00 This is an awesome book. I laughed and cried. It's heartbreaking and uplifting. I highly...	Desperate Lands: The War on Terror Through the Eyes of a Special Forces Soldier Best Price: $19.95 A great book to read if you have ever wondered what is really happening over there with the war...	Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan Best Price: $3.00 I developed quite a dislike for Kaplan as I read this book, but the subject matter was...	The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost Best Price: $10.00 Ah, the great literary prose of Nabakov and Dostoyevsky this is not. Keep in mind this is an...	Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies ; 21) Best Price: $22.37 This beautifully written book covers three heroes from the period before the Soviet invasion of...

Doonesbury.com's The Sandbox: Dispatches from Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan (Doonesbury.Com) Best Price: $8.00 This book is a compilation of e-mails from men and women in the army, navy and marines...	Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green: A Year in the Desert with Team America Best Price: $7.50 A good topic that kept me interested. Unfortunately, I thought the writing was immature and a...	Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina Best Price: $12.25 this book offers the reader many details / facts about the relationships between drugs, oil,...	Heroes Among Us: Firsthand Accounts of Combat from America's Most Decorated Warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan Best Price: $2.50 Wow, this book just blew me way. I was not the kind of person who loved reading and read during...	Living on the Devil's Doorstep: From Kabul to Amsterdam (International Adventures) (International Adventure Series) Best Price: $7.60 I love reading a variety of Christian books. But some of my favorites are personal biographies....

The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan Best Price: $4.96 Each book that I have read on Afghanistan takes a slightly different tact. I read many that...	The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan Best Price: $7.14 In Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King, a young adventurer named Daniel Dravot...	A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan Best Price: $3.89 A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan wasn't that interesting. Same story which...	Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan (Hellenistic Culture and Society) Best Price: $8.97 For those who enjoy popular history, "Into the Land of Bones" presents a good...	Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom Best Price: $5.84 Zoya's story begins with her childhood in the war torn country of Afghanistan as the daughter of...

Modern Afghanistan: A History of Struggle and Survival Best Price: $23.84 Afghanistan’s history is a sad one: Soviet invasion in 1979; Pakistan-backed internal...	The Blog of War: Front-Line Dispatches from Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan Best Price: $2.95 As I read this book, it really gave me (the reader) a first hand knowledge, (only a glimpse) of...	Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan Best Price: $3.96 It is difficult to read a book about Kabul, or Afghanistan more generally, without feeling...	Love and War in Afghanistan Best Price: $10.71 This book gives amazing insight to anyone wanting to know more about Afghanistan from a personal...	Hunting al Qaeda: A Take-No-Prisoners Account of Terror, Adventure, and Disillusionment Best Price: $1.29 I purchased this book last year and read it in a few days. As a former Guardsman I totally...

Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom Best Price: $12.50 Living in Egypt and seeing firsthand how harshly women were (and still are) treated by men...	Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban Best Price: $3.90 I spent over four months in Afghanistan this year, and this was one of the books I read in...	Afghanistan And the Troubled Future of Unconventional Warfare Best Price: $16.84 Hy Rothstein has written one of the great books on modern warfare. It is a well written and...	American Soldier Best Price: $0.74 15 June 2008 - Even though I was "in the military" during Operation Iraqi Freedom and...	Building a New Afghanistan Best Price: $16.75 This was a bit of a dry read but the opinions in it are very well reasoned. It covers a wide...

My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story Best Price: $6.19 This is a great little book which gives a personal, moving account of the years after the...	SPECIAL FORCES: War Against Terrorism in Afghanistan Best Price: $37.77 Well first off, I am not in the military or even care to be in the military. Now that's out of...	Women at War: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Conflicts Best Price: $16.99 In "Women at War: Iraq, Afghanistan, and other Conflicts", James Wise and Scott Baron...	The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader Best Price: $4.84 As a person who has long tried to understand how this person could be a part of the horrible...	Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep Best Price: $10.89 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars Convincing account of ...,...

The Afghanistan Wars Best Price: $27.37 This is an excellent review of the many wars suffered by Afghanistan and the reasons these wars...	Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan: The Martyr Who Founded RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan Best Price: $4.76 The Story of Meena is a remarkable one of love and dedication to the women of Afhanistan. Meena...	Afghanistan Cave Complexes 1979-2004: "Mountain strongholds of the Mujahideen, Taliban & Al Qaeda" (Fortress) Best Price: $1.98 A very interesting book, very well illustrated with diagrams and photographs. Not a definitive...	The Road to Oxiana Best Price: $7.98 M. Byron wanted to write literature. His book therefore uses travel material with this goal. And...	Afghanistan The Bear Trap: The Defeat of a Superpower Best Price: $87.50 This is a Pakistani account of operations supporting the Mujahideen during the Soviet occupation...

Means Of Escape: A War Correspondent's Memoir of Life and Death in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and Vietnam Best Price: $0.03 I'm going to post the Publisher Comments and also the Kirkus Reviews here because it will better...

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