Full name: Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban

Author: Stephen Tanner Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780306818264 0306818264

For over 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads for armies and has witnessed history-shaping clashes between civilizations: Greek, Arab, Mongol, and Tartar, and, in more recent times, British, Russian, and American. When U.S. troops entered Afghanistan in the weeks following September 11, 2001, they overthrew the Afghan Taliban regime and sent the terrorists it harbored on the run. But America's initial easy victory is in sharp contrast to the difficulties it faces today in confronting the Taliban resurgence.Originally published in 2002, Stephen Tanner's Afghanistan has now been completely updated to include the crucial turn of events since America first entered the country. Similar books: In the Graveyard of Empires by Seth G. Jones Return of a King by William Dalrymple Not a Good Day to Die by Sean Naylor Games without Rules by Tamim Ansary Afgantsy by Rodric Braithwaite Afghanistan by Thomas Barfield The Punishment of Virtue by Sarah Chayes The Only Thing Worth Dying For by Eric Blehm The Other Side of the Mountain by Ali Ahmad Jalali The Hidden War by Artyom Borovik Little America by Rajiv Chandrasekaran The Outpost by Jake Tapper Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell On the Origins of War by Donald Kagan