Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | DS 356 .T27 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5036409 |
DS 352 .A39 2005 Come back to Afghanistan : a California teenager's story / | DS 354 .B69 2011 My Afghanistan : the life of a young American woman as a teacher in Afghanistan in the days before the Taliban / | DS 356 .R86 2007 The history of Afghanistan / | DS 356 .T27 2009 Afghanistan : a military history from Alexander the Great to the war against the Taliban / | DS 357.6 .S65 B7 1983 Afghanistan and the Soviet Union / | DS 359.7 .D35 2013 The return of a king : the battle for Afghanistan / | DS 361 .A755 2012 Games without rules : the often interrupted history of Afghanistan / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-359) and index.
This volume provides a military history of Afghanistan, including the recent operations by American and Afghan forces fighting the Taliban insurgency. 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.
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