Recommended Reading on Afghanistan History
from Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
Ahmad, Aisha, and Roger Boase, Pashtun Tales from the Pakistan-Afghan Frontier (Saqi, 2008).
Barfield, Thomas, Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (Princeton, 2010).
Brodsky, Anna, With All Our Strength: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (Routledge, 2003).
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Chaffetz, David, A Journey Through Afghanistan: A Memorial (Regnery Gateway, 1981).
Elliot, Jason, An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan (Picador USA, 1999).
Girardet, Edward, Killing the Cranes: A Reporter’s Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan (Chelsea Green, 2011).
Kargar, Zarghuna, Dear Zari: Hidden Stories from the Women of Afghanistan (Chatto & Windus, 2011).
Lamb, Christina, Sewing Circles of Heart (HarperCollins, 2002).
Loewen, Arley, and Josette McMichael, Eds., Images of Afghanistan: Exploring Afghanistan Through Art and Culture (Oxford, 2010).
Majrouh, Sayd Bahodine, Songs of Love and War: Afghan Women’s Poetry (Other Press, 2003).
Newby, Eric, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Secker & War- burg, 1958).
Omrani, Bijan, and Matthew Leeming, Afghanistan: A Companion and Guide, 2nd ed. (Airphoto International, 2011).
On the Soviet Occupation:
Braithewaite, Rodric, Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89 (Oxford, 2011).
Kalinovsky, Artemy, A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Harvard, 2011).
On the American Occupation:
Amnesty International, As If Hell Fell on Me: The Human Rights Crisis in Northwest Pakistan (Amnesty Interna- tional Publications, 2010).
Anderson, Ben, No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan (Oneworld, 2011).
Badkhen, Anna, Afghanistan by Donkey: One Year in a War Zone (Foreign Policy, 2012).
Bird, Tim, and Alex Marshall, Afghanistan: How the West Lost Its Way (Yale, 2011).
Chayes, Sarah, The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban (Penguin, 2006).
Johnson, Robert, The Afghan Way of War: How and Why They Fight (Oxford, 2012).
Luttrell, Marcus, Lone Survivor (Little, Brown, 2007).
Parnell, Sean, Outlaw Platoon (William Morrow, 2012).
Rashid, Ahmed, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, 2nd ed. (Yale, 2010).
Tupper, Benjamin, Greetings from Afghanistan, Send More Ammo (New American Library Caliber, 2010).
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