Books on Afghan History
2018
Lee, Jonathan L., Afghanistan: a history from 1260 to the
present, Reaktion Books, London, 2018. 784 pages.
2002
Edwards, David B. Before Taliban: Genealogies
of the Afghan jihad, University of California Press, April 2002.
The author traces the lives of three recent Afghan leaders in
Afghanistan's history to explain how the promise of progress and
prosperity that animated Afghanistan in the 1960s crumbled and became
discord, destruction, and despair.
www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520228610
1996
Edwards, David B. Heroes of the Age: Moral
Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier, University of California Press,
November 1996. The author believes that conflicting values within an
artificially-created state are at the root of Afghanistan's current
instability.
www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520200647
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