Cheryl Benard
In Afghanistan under Taliban rule, women were forbidden to work or go to school, they could not leave their homes without a male chaperone, and they could not be seen without a head-to-toe covering called the burqa. A woman's slightest ... [... more]
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Kristin Ohlson
Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills-as doctors, nurses, and therapists-seemed eminently ... [... more]
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Jonathan Bernstein
AH-64 Apache Units of Operations Enduring Freedom & Iraqi Freedom After the attacks on 11 September 2001, Apache units made significant contributions to the Coalition campaign against Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan. Functioning as the ... [... more]
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Deborah Rodriguez
Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills-as doctors, nurses, and therapists-seemed eminently ... [... more]
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John Cullen
Cullen is the also the co-author with Alexandra de Borchgrave of Villard: The Life... 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 ... [... more]
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Yasmina Khadra
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, exceedingly beautiful, who ... [... more]
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Taliban
 From Amazon.co.uk: Ahmed Rashid's Taliban: The story of the Afghan Warlords is the single best book available on the subject of the regime in Afghanistan responsible for harbouring the terrorist Osama bin Laden. Rashid is a Pakistani journalist who has [... more]
CDN$40.10
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Johnny Rico
Outrageous, hilarious, and absolutely candid, Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green is Johnny Rico's firsthand account of fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, a memoir that also reveals the universal truths about the madness of war. No one would have ... [... more]
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The Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan: Mass ...
Don't bother: The Publisher's Weekly review is spot on. The actual discussion of the Taliban doesn't show until the middle of the book! This book appears to be a poorly written and overly-detailed college essay that publishers decided to inflict on the [... more]
CDN$20.95
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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in ...
From Amazon.com: This is the single best book available on the Taliban, the fundamentalist Islamic regime in Afghanistan responsible for harboring the terrorist Osama bin Laden. Ahmed Rashid is a Pakistani journalist who has spent most of his career [... more]
CDN$15.58
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Taliban
From Amazon.co.uk: Ahmed Rashid's Taliban: The story of the Afghan Warlords is the single best book available on the subject of the regime in Afghanistan responsible for harbouring the terrorist Osama bin Laden. Rashid is a Pakistani journalist who has [... more]
CDN$16.02
Amazon CA |
Fundamentalism Reborn?: Afghanistan Under the Taliban
Good survey of Afghanistan since 1996: An excellent series of essays by veteran watchers of Afghanistan with much recent experience on the ground. Goes beyond the myths often repeated in daily papers. Impartial and rigorous on the Taliban and the nature [... more]
CDN$23.08
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