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Author : Jyotindra Nath Dixit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Afghan Diary written by Jyotindra Nath Dixit and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of author's political diary on the political developments from 1982 to 1985 in Afghanistan.
Author : Emal Dusst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781513613956
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Our Shared Stories written by Emal Dusst and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of 40+ personal stories from around the world. The contributors offer thoughtful reflections about their experiences escaping from the wars in Afghanistan, resettling in host countries, and working to rebuild Afghanistan in the past decade. Book proceeds are dedicated to supporting girls' education in Afghanistan.
Author : Robert L. Grenier
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476712085
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book 88 Days to Kandahar written by Robert L. Grenier and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The director of the American-Afghan war describes how he orchestrated the defeat of the Taliban in the region by forging separate alliances with warlords, Taliban dissidents, and the Pakistani intelligence service.
Author : Ray Wiss
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1926812379
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (268 download)
Download or read book FOB Doc written by Ray Wiss and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military doctors serving in Afghanistan usually spend their entire tour in the relatively safe confines of the main base. FOB Doc is the story of one Canadian doctor who spent nearly his entire tour in combat. Captain Ray Wiss was stationed at Forward Operating Bases — FOBs — in Khandahar province, the birthplace of the Taliban and the most intense zone combat in Afghanistan. He shares the 'terror and boredom' of the front-line soldier's life in this candid personal diary. One day, he might be participating in combat operations, treating severe and bloody injuries and coping with the deaths of fellow soldiers, both Afghans and NATO allies; another day, he might be writing about the challenges of going to the latrine in sub-zero weather. FOB Doc is heartbreaking and hilarious, often on the same page.
Author : Mike Davidow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Afghan Diary written by Mike Davidow and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mahvish Khan
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1586486616
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)
Download or read book My Guantanamo Diary written by Mahvish Khan and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2008-01-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mahvish Khan is an American lawyer, born to immigrant Afghan parents in Michigan. Outraged that her country was illegally imprisoning people at Guantanamo, she volunteered to translate for the prisoners. She spoke their language, understood their customs, and brought them Starbucks chai, the closest available drink to the kind of tea they would drink at home. And they quickly befriended her, offering fatherly advice as well as a uniquely personal insight into their plight, and that of their families thousands of miles away. For Mahvish Khan the experience was a validation of her Afghan heritage -- as well as her American freedoms, which allowed her to intervene at Guantanamo purely out of her sense that it was the right thing to do. Mahvish Khan's story is a challenging, brave, and essential test of who she is -- and who we are.
Author : Ana Tortajada
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466863439
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Silenced Cry written by Ana Tortajada and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by a lecture in Barcelona given by a leading member of RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan), the radical feminist women's group who work under cover as the only real opposition to the Taliban, Ana Tortajada, an experienced Spanish journalist, decided to make a trip to Afghanistan in the summer of 2000. She wanted to learn more about the lives of Afghan women, to visit their homes and the places where they worked as clandestine teachers and doctors, to meet their families, to listen to their stories, and see how they lived under the veil. Tortajada's journey takes her from the slums and refugee camps in Peshawar, along the Pakistani-Afghan border, to Kabul. She writes about the revolutionary efforts of RAWA, the genocidal campaign of the Taliban to extinguish the Hazara ethnicity in Afghanistan, the failure of the international community to ameliorate the alarming situation of Afghan refugees, and offers a first-hand account of the atrocities Afghan women have been suffering at the hands of the Taliban. The Silenced Cry is not only timely, but also compelling. With extremely evocative and poetic writing, Tortajada conveys the beauty of the landscape, and the wonderfully inspiring optimism of the people. In heart-wrenching detail, we see just how debilitated and wretched the conditions were, yet we also see people who still fought for freedom, democracy, and basic human rights. Candid and compassionate, never condescending or pitying, The Silenced Cry is a human, approachable, and provocative look at the best and worst in the human spirit.
Author : Jyotindra Nath Dixit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Afghan Diary written by Jyotindra Nath Dixit and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Author Served In Afghanistan For Nearly 4 Years Fron 1981 To 1985. The Book Presents A Detailed Diary Maintained By Him On Daily And Weekly Basis. 7 Chapters - Introduction - What Forced Zahir Shah Out - Diary For 1982 - Diary For 1983 - Diary For 1984 - Diary For 1985, Postscript - A New Begining - Index - Full Of Contemporary Details And Analysis, The Book Will Serve As A Source Book For Scholars And Researchers.
Author : George McCafferty
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1398114049
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (981 download)
Download or read book The Little Men written by George McCafferty and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Little Men' tells the real story of Operation Herrick, unvarnished, from the point of view not of Generals or politicians, but the poor bloody infantry.
Author : Tamim Ansary
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1610393198
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Games without Rules written by Tamim Ansary and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of Destiny Disrupted: an enlightening, accessible history of modern Afghanistan from the Afghan point of view, showing how Great Power conflicts have interrupted its ongoing, internal struggle to take form as a nation
Author : Artified Pets
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539528418
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Afghan Hound written by Artified Pets and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dog lovers everywhere will delight in this journal/notebook/diary, featuring the sweet, silly Afghan Hound. With 140 lined, white pages, Afghan lovers have plenty of room to write, create, plan, take notes, or dream. When you are ready to disconnect from technology, this is ideal for capturing your thoughts on paper. From the Artified Pets Series: Dogalot Volume I, Edition I
Author : Florentia Sale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846777325
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Lady Sale's Afghanistan written by Florentia Sale and published by . This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hard road back to India There are few books that can truly be said to be unique, but this is one. Afghanistan has been a battleground since man has occupied its hostile landscape and others have sought to control it as the corridor between great continents. The British-conquerors of the Indian sub-continent-have found themselves fruitlessly bleeding into its dry soil on several occasions. The first was in the mid-nineteenth century as they attempted to secure an unpopular puppet ruler on its throne. Error compounded error as Elphinstone, the British army's incompetent commander, compromised his strategic position in the capital and then, to extricate himself, instigated a forced retreat in winter as hostile tribesmen pressed in on all sides. History knows that this resulted in the annihilation of the entire army. Only a handful of people survived. One of these was Lady Sale, the formidable wife of Robert Sale whose brigade was fighting its own war locked inside Jellalabad. Incredibly Lady Sale kept a daily diary of her experience of the entire appalling catastrophe. It illuminates the events of the retreat uniquely and provides an inspiring view of a woman rising to the demands of extreme adversity that has no parallels.
Author : Saima Wahab
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307884945
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book In My Father's Country written by Saima Wahab and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the author's decision, years after her father was taken away by the KGB, to relocate to her uncle's home in America, where she pursued an education and worked as an interpreter before becoming a cultural adviser for the U.S. Army.
Author : Joel Hafvenstein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9781599215952
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Opium Season written by Joel Hafvenstein and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Untold Narratives CIC
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1399728008
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (997 download)
Download or read book My Dear Kabul written by Untold Narratives CIC and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible and courageous collective diary of an Afghan women's writing group during the Fall of Kabul in August 2021 'An intimate, courageous chronicle of life as it unfolds under Taliban rule' OBSERVER, *Book of the Day* 'A hugely important book' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'A deeply moving collective memoir' LYSE DOUCET In August 2021, as the Taliban approached the gates of Kabul, twenty-one women writers in Afghanistan came online in their WhatsApp chat group: they asked what news others had heard and if everyone was safe. These women had been brought together as a writing group. They were about to publish their first collection of short stories, while working regular day jobs. Some were students, some newly married, one was a grandmother: all were afraid of what was now to come. Over the next year, in the makeshift refuge of their WhatsApp group, they shared the day-to-day reality of life after a fall. Publishing on the anniversary of the Fall of Kabul, this is the women's courageous collective diary: in it the writers watch cities transform, schools close, families change and freedoms disappear. They share stories of chaos, protest and flight - and of life continuing. Check-points are a daily trial; men start behaving differently. Children can't afford the ice-cream man's wares; passports are near impossible to obtain. Together, their messages form a powerful chorus of resistance and solidarity. 'Its courage is momentous' ALI SMITH
Author : Edward Girardet
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603583181
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Killing the Cranes written by Edward Girardet and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Girardet discusses his experiences as a foreign correspondent in Afghanistan over the last thirty years, including the Soviet invasion, the Taliban gaining control, the American occupation, and interviews with such people as Osama bin Laden, Islamist extremist Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and Ahmed Shah Massoud.
Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307958299
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Return of a King written by William Dalrymple and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West’s greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time. With access to newly discovered primary sources from archives in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and India—including a series of previously untranslated Afghan epic poems and biographies—the author gives us the most immediate and comprehensive account yet of the spectacular first battle for Afghanistan: the British invasion of the remote kingdom in 1839. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed helmets, and facing little resistance, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the mountain passes from India into Afghanistan in order to reestablish Shah Shuja ul-Mulk on the throne, and as their puppet. But after little more than two years, the Afghans rose in answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into rebellion. This First Anglo-Afghan War ended with an entire army of what was then the most powerful military nation in the world ambushed and destroyed in snowbound mountain passes by simply equipped Afghan tribesmen. Only one British man made it through. But Dalrymple takes us beyond the bare outline of this infamous battle, and with penetrating, balanced insight illuminates the uncanny similarities between the West’s first disastrous entanglement with Afghanistan and the situation today. He delineates the straightforward facts: Shah Shuja and President Hamid Karzai share the same tribal heritage; the Shah’s principal opponents were the Ghilzai tribe, who today make up the bulk of the Taliban’s foot soldiers; the same cities garrisoned by the British are today garrisoned by foreign troops, attacked from the same rings of hills and high passes from which the British faced attack. Dalryrmple also makes clear the byzantine complexity of Afghanistan’s age-old tribal rivalries, the stranglehold they have on the politics of the nation and the ways in which they ensnared both the British in the nineteenth century and NATO forces in the twenty-first. Informed by the author’s decades-long firsthand knowledge of Afghanistan, and superbly shaped by his hallmark gifts as a narrative historian and his singular eye for the evocation of place and culture, The Return of a King is both the definitive analysis of the First Anglo-Afghan War and a work of stunning topicality.
