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A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice by Malalai Joya Publisher Comments Malalai Joya was named one of Time magazines 100 Most Influential People of 2010. An extraordinary young woman raised in the refugee camps of Iran and Pakistan, Joya became a teacher in secret girls schools, hiding her books under her burqa so the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan Into the Future by Fawzia Koofi Publisher Comments The nineteenth daughter of a local village leader in rural Afghanistan, Fawzia Koofi was left to die in the sun after birth by her mother. But she survived, and perseverance in the face of extreme hardship has defined her life ever since. Despite the... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Power Struggle Over Afghanistan: An Inside Look at What Went Wrong--And What We Can Do to Repair the Damage by Kai Eide Publisher Comments Based on the author's own conversations with President Karzai and other Afghan politicians, as well as prominent international representatives, Power Struggle Over Afghanistan is a Norwegian diplomat's account of his two years at the United Nations. Eide... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad Staff Pick In this remarkable portrait, Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad recounts with brutal honesty the day to day lives of one Afghani family persevering through life in a country beset by chaos. With the assent of the Khan family with whom she lives... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker Publisher Comments A true-life Catch-22 set in the deeply dysfunctional countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan, by one of the region’s longest-serving correspondents. Kim Barker is not your typical, impassive foreign correspondent—she is candid, self-deprecating,... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Places In Between by Rory Stewart Publisher Comments In January 2002, Rory Stewart survived a walk across Afghanistan by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. In this memoir, he writes about heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Publisher Comments The life Kamila Sidiqi had known changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul. After receiving a teaching degree during the civil war—a rare achievement for any Afghan woman—Kamila was subsequently banned from school... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers by Peter Tomsen Publisher Comments As Ambassador and Special Envoy on Afghanistan from 1989 to 1992, Peter Tomsen has had close relationships with Afghan leaders and has dealt with senior Taliban, warlords, and religious leaders involved in the regions conflicts over the last two decades.... (read more) List Price $39.99 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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Killing the Cranes: A Reporter's Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan by Edward Girardet Publisher Comments Few reporters have covered Afghanistan as intrepidly and humanely as Edward Girardet. Now, in a gripping, personal account, Girardet delivers a story of that nation's resistance fighters, foreign invaders, mercenaries, spies, aid workers, Islamic... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan: A Firsthand Account by One of the Few Survivors by Florentia Sale Publisher Comments The first move in what would later be called 'The Great Game'-the strategic maneuvering between the Russian and British Empires on the North West frontier of India-was the occupation of Kabul (then Cabul) in 1839 by a military expedition from India. This... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Vintage Departures) by Robert D Kaplan Publisher Comments Robert D. Kaplan, bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts, offers a unique opportunity to increase our understanding of a people and a country at the center of world events. Here is a first-hand account of the guerrilla fighters, including Ahmad Shah Massoud... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History by George Crile Publisher Comments The untold story of a whiskey-swilling, skirt-chasing, scandal-prone congressman from Texas, and how he conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the biggest and most successful covert operation in U.S. history In a little over a decade, two... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda by Gretchen Peters Publisher Comments Seeds of Terror is a groundbreaking triumph of reporting, a book that changed U.S. policy toward the Afghan heroin trade and the fight against terror. In it, Gretchen Peters exposes the deepening relationship between the Taliban and drug... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Retreat from Kabul: The Catastrophic British Defeat in Afghanistan, 1842 by Patrick Macrory Publisher Comments Using research from contemporary letters, dispatches, and journals, author Patrick Macrory provides a gripping account of what is known as the First Afghan War. The war was Britain's folly: at the height of its power in India, Britain sought to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom by Zoya Publisher Comments Kabul was always more beautiful in the snow. Even the piles of rotting rubbish in my street, the only source of food for the scrawny chickens and goats that our neighbors kept outside their mud houses, looked beautiful to me after the snow had covered... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan by Ann Jones Publisher Comments 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 winters working in humanitarian aid... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Afghanistan: A Modern History by Angelo Rasanayagam Publisher Comments Afghanistan has long been the focal point of East-West relations, from the 19th and early 20th centuries when its mountain ranges provided the arena where the world's greatest powers sought to expand their influence to its center role in international... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan by Antonio Giustozzi Publisher Comments Since the Allied invasion of Afghanistan in 2002, the Bush administration has celebrated the imminent demise of the Taliban, with claims of a moral and psychological defeat playing a prominent role in the presidential elections of 2004. Some commentators... (read more) List Price $24.25 Your price: $18.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Khaarijee: A Chronicle of Friendship and War in Kabul by J. Malcolm Garcia Publisher Comments Explores the relationship between six orphans; a dog; a Muslim man; and the author, an inexperienced American journalist, thrust together in post-9/11 Afghanistan, in book that shows how profoundly the country changed the author.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $19.48 Google eBooks - Electronic
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My Life with the Taliban by Abd Al Salam Zaif Publisher Comments My Life with the Taliban is the autobiography of Abdul Salam Zaeef, a former senior member of Afghanistan's Taliban and a principal actor in its domestic and foreign affairs. Translated for the first time from the Pashto, Zaeef's words share more than a... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $22.50 Sale - Hardcover
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