SUBJECT OF BOOKS

J. Bruce Amstutz. Afghanistan: The First Five Years of Soviet Occupation. National Defense University. 1994. 545pp.

Thomas Barfield. Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History. Princeton University Press. 2010. 400pp.

C. H. Bleaney; M. A. Gallego. Afghanistan: A Bibliography. E. J. Brill. 2006. 398pp.

Sarah Chayes. The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban. Penguin. 2007. 386pp.

Diego Cordovez; Selig S. Harrison. Out of Afghanistan: The Inside Story of the Soviet Withdrawal. Oxford University Press. 1995. 450pp.

Gilles Dorronsoro. Afghanistan: Revolution Unending, 1979-2002. C. Hurst. 2004. 320pp.

Louis Dupree. Afghanistan. Oxford University Press. 2002. 804pp.

Martin Ewans. Afghanistan: A Short History of Its People and Politics. HarperCollins. 2002. 368pp.

Vanda Felbab-Brown. Aspiration and Ambivalence: Strategies and Realities of Counterinsurgency and State-Building in Afghanistan. Brookings Institution Press. 2012. 358pp.

Mark Galeotti. Afghanistan: The Soviet Union's Last War. Taylor & Francis. 2001. 224pp.

Cary Gladstone. Afghanistan: History, Issues, Bibliography. Nova Publishers. 2001. 138pp.

Frank L. Holt. Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan. University of California Press. 2005. 241pp.

Rizwan Hussain. Pakistan and the Emergence of Islamic Militancy in Afghanistan. Ashgate Publishing. 2005. 288pp.

M. Hassan Kakar. Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982. University of California Press. 1997. 392pp.

Rosanne Klass. Afghanistan: The Great Game Revisited. Freedom House. 1987. 519pp.

Tom Lansford. A Bitter Harvest: US Foreign Policy and Afghanistan. Ashgate Publishing. 2003. 206pp.

Adam B. Lowther. Americans and Asymmetric Conflict: Lebanon, Somalia, and Afghanistan. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2007. 233pp.

Ralph H. Magnus; Eden Naby. Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, and Mujahid. Westview Press. 1998. 274pp.

William Maley. The Afghanistan Wars. Macmillan. 2002. 340pp.

Kamal Matinuddin. Power Struggle in the Hindu Kush: Afghanistan, 1978-1991. Wajidalis. 1991. 377pp.

Martin McCauley. Afghanistan and Central Asia: A Modern History. Longman. 2002. 172pp.

Nabi Misdaq. Afghanistan: Political Frailty and External Interference. Routledge. 2006. 351pp.

Asta Olesen. Islam and Politics in Afghanistan. Routledge. 1995. 351pp.

Diana Preston. The Dark Defile: Britain's Catastrophic Invasion of Afghanistan, 1838-1842. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2012. 307pp.

Angelo Rasanayagam. Afghanistan: A Modern History. I. B. Tauris. 2005. 336pp.

Ahmed Rashid. Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Viking. 2012. 256pp.

Tom Rogers. The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Analysis and Chronology. Greenwood Press. 1992. 256pp.

Olivier Roy. Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan. Cambridge University Press. 1990. 270pp. Revised edition.

Barnett R. Rubin. The Search for Peace in Afghanistan: From Buffer State to Failed State. Yale University Press. 1995. 190pp.

Amin Saikal. Modern Afghanistan: A History of Struggle and Survival. I. B. Tauris. 2006. 352pp.

Victoria Schofield. Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia. Tauris Parke. 2003. 384pp.

Peter Dale Scott. Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina. Rowman & Littlefield. 2003. 227pp.

Jonathan Sutherland. Conflict in Afghanistan: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. 2003. 377pp.

Willem Vogelsang. The Afghans. Blackwell Publishing. 2002. 382pp.

Lawrence Ziring. Iran, Turkey, and Afghanistan: A Political Chronology. Praeger. 1981. 230pp.

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