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- Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan Doug Stanton.
- Khost Vincent Hobbes (Goodreads Author)
- Not A Good Day To Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda Sean Naylor (Goodreads Author)
- War Sebastian Junger (Goodreads Author)
Aug 31, 2021 · The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America’s longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan, by Washington Post reporter and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Whitlock.
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- The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
- Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra, Translated by John Cullen
- The Opium Prince by Jasmine Aimaq
- Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
- The Blind Man’S Garden by Nadeem Aslam
- The Photographer by Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre, and Fréderic Lemercier
- Every Man in This Village Is A Liar: An Education in War by Megan K. Stack
- The Honey Thief by Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Kabul, 2007: Nine-year-old Rahima and her family are struggling to get by in the oppressive patriarchal society of Afghanistan. Rahima has only sisters, and her father is too drug-addled to be of any use to anyone. Due to Afghan laws, women cannot leave the house without the accompaniment of a man, which means the family has no way to earn a living...
Through their shared experiences and feelings of suffering and despair, the lives of four people – two couples – are about to be brought together under the same destiny. All of them will be forever changed. Under the strict new Taliban rule, shopkeeper Mohsen’s life has drastically changed. The Taliban has ruined his family, and he strongly opposes...
In 1970s Afghanistan, Daniel Sajadi is returning home at last to Kabul. As the son of a deceased Afghan war hero father and an American mother, he is seemingly a child of two very different worlds. Now, after many years in Los Angeles, he is on an American foreign-aid agency mission to get rid of the poppy fields that supply the narcotics dealers w...
Okay, so not all– or even most – of this book is set in Afghanistan. However, this is one of my favorite Kamila Shamsie books, and I want more people to read it! Covering three catastrophic world events over the course of three generations, Burnt Shadowsis a story of love, violence, and perseverance. Caught in the aftermath of the atomic bomb, youn...
Set during the first few months after the 9/11 attacks, this wartime novel follows two brothers, Jeo and Mikal. While almost inseparable as children, as adults their lives have taken different paths. Where Jeo’s life has been ordered as he becomes a doctor and gets married, Mikal’s has been more tempestuous, with no clear direction for him to follo...
At the end of July in 1986, photographer Didier Lefèvre leaves Paris and flies to Pakistan to join a team from Doctors Without Borders. With them, he will be traveling into Afghanistan to document their mission as they provide medical assistance during the conflict between the Afghan Mujahideen and the USSR. It was a mission Lefèvre would barely su...
Just a few weeks after the attack on the World Trade Center, 25-year-old journalist Megan K. Stack arrives in Afghanistan. Sent to report on the “war on terror,” over time Stack discovers that she has been sent into a place where things are not as clear cut as they seem. Over time, Stack begins to experience a gradual disillusionment, with the casu...
Afghanistan has a long and rich tradition of oral storytelling. With this collection of short stories, authors Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman have captured the essence of that tradition. One story concerns the trade of beekeeping and how it is passed down from generation to generation. Another follows the exploits of a boy, his grandfather, and a ...
One of the most well-known novels about Afghanistan and for readers of sad books, The Kite Runner is a story about friendship and struggle during a tumultuous period in history. Set against the fall of Afghanistan’s leaders and during Soviet occupation, the novel begins in Kabul in the 1970s. Amir and Hassan are friends even though Amir comes from ...
Mar 29, 2024 · Look no further than our list of the 20 best books on Afghanistan war. From heart-wrenching memoirs to meticulously researched historical accounts, these books offer a diverse and insightful look into one of the most important conflicts of our time.
Nov 26, 2021 · Five essential books about the war in Afghanistan. Photo by Mac Caltrider/Coffee or Die Magazine. After two decades of fighting in Afghanistan, America’s longest war has finally come to an end. Historians will long debate if the war was a successful response to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, or if it was a strategic failure, but ...
Aug 16, 2021 · THE AMERICAN WAR IN AFGHANISTAN. A History. By Carter Malkasian. The AFGHANISTAN PAPERS. A Secret History of the War. By Craig Whitlock. In the predawn hours of July 1 they departed, the...
The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America’s longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan, by Washington Post reporter and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Whitlock.
