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Author : Tim Lister
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (822 download)
Download or read book To Afghanistan, on the Slow Train written by Tim Lister and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Millar
Publisher : Arcadia Books
ISBN 13 : 1909807087
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Slow Train to Guantanamo written by Peter Millar and published by Arcadia Books. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting in the ramshackle but romantic capital of Havana, Peter Millar travels with ordinary Cubans, sharing anecdotes, life stories and political opinions to the far end of the island, the Guantanamo naval base and detention camp.
Author : Tom Chesshyre
Publisher : Summersdale Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781800072633
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (726 download)
Download or read book Slow Trains Around Spain written by Tom Chesshyre and published by Summersdale Publishers. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between soaring mountains, across arid deserts, parched plains and valleys of fruit orchards and olive groves, down glittering coastlines and along viaducts towering above plunging ravines... there is no better way to see Spain than by train. Rail enthusiast Tom Chesshyre, author of Slow Trains to Venice, Ticket to Ride and Tales from the Fast Trains, hits the tracks once again to take in the country through carriage windows on a series of clattering rides beyond the popular image of "holiday Spain" (although he stops by in Benidorm and Torremolinos too). From hidden spots in Catalonia, through the plains of Aragon and across the north coast to Santiago de Compostela, Chesshyre continues his journey via Madrid, the wilds of Extremadura, dusty mining towns, the cathedrals and palaces of Valencia and Granada, and finally to Seville, Andalusia's beguiling (and hot) capital. Encounters? Plenty. Mishaps? A lot. Happy Spanish days? All the way.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The New Afghanistan Strategy written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vassily Klimentov
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501773828
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book A Slow Reckoning written by Vassily Klimentov and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Slow Reckoning examines the Soviet Union's and the Afghan communists' views of and policies toward Islam and Islamism during the Soviet-Afghan War (1979–1989). As Vassily Klimentov demonstrates, the Soviet and communist Afghan disregard for Islam was telling of the overall communist approach to reforming Afghanistan and helps explain the failure of their modernization project. A Slow Reckoning reveals how during most of the conflict Babrak Karmal, the ruler installed by the Soviets, instrumentalized Islam in support of his rule while retaining a Marxist-Leninist platform. Similarly, the Soviets at all levels failed to give Islam its due importance as communist ideology and military considerations dominated their decision making. This approach to Islam only changed after Mikhail Gorbachev replaced Karmal by Mohammad Najibullah and prepared to withdraw Soviet forces. Discarding Marxism-Leninism for Islam proved the correct approach, but it came too late to salvage the Soviet nation-building project. A Slow Reckoning also shows how Soviet leaders only started seriously paying attention to an Islamist threat from Afghanistan to Central Asia after 1986. While the Soviets had concerns related to Islamism in 1979, only the KGB believed the threat to be potent. The Soviet elites never fully conceptualized Islamism, continuing to see it as an ideology the United States, Iran, or Pakistan could instrumentalize at will. They believed the Islamists had little agency and that their retrograde ideology could not find massive appeal among progressive Soviet Muslims. In this, they were only partly right.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Afghanistan written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Seth G. Jones
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393338517
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan written by Seth G. Jones and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Following the September 11 attacks, the United States successfully overthrew the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. The U.S. established security throughout the country--killing, capturing, or scattering most of al Qa'ida's senior operatives--and Afghanistan finally began to emerge from more than two decades of struggle and conflict. But Jones argues that as early as 2001, planning for the Iraq War siphoned resources and personnel, undermining the gains that had been made. Jones introduces us to key figures on both sides of the war. He then analyzes the insurgency from a historical and structural point of view, showing how a rising drug trade, poor security forces, and pervasive corruption undermined the Karzai government, while Americans abandoned a successful strategy, failed to provide the necessary support, and allowed a growing sanctuary for insurgents in Pakistan to catalyze the Taliban resurgence"--From publisher.
Author : Hamid Wahed Alikuzai
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490714421
Total Pages : 953 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)
Download or read book A Concise History of Afghanistan in 25 Volumes written by Hamid Wahed Alikuzai and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 953 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afghanistan Literature is Worlds greatest and richest without Afghan- Literature no European (German, French, Spanish or English) Literature would exist today The Vedas, Zoroastrian, and Buddhist, among the oldest known Literature of Afghanistan, originating from the Great capital of Bactria present day Balkh, and Aria present day Herat, Sanskrit is the reference to the original history of Afghanistan. The Saxon Europeans influence during the Great Games of the mid nineteenth century affected the Afghan language, religion and Territories size, which previously had extended from India to North Africa at 2.6 million square kilometers. The Great Games continued at any cost evolving into present-day conflicts of 2013.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Afghanistan written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. M. Kaye
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250089298
Total Pages : 961 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Far Pavilions written by M. M. Kaye and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping epic set in 19th-century India begins in the foothills of the towering Himalayas and follows a young Indian-born orphan as he's raised in England and later returns to India where he falls in love with an Indian princess and struggles with cultural divides. The Far Pavilions is itself a Himalayan achievement, a book we hate to see come to an end. It is a passionate, triumphant story that excites us, fills us with joy, move us to tears, satisfies us deeply, and helps us remember just what it is we want most from a novel. M.M. Kaye's masterwork is a vast, rich and vibrant tapestry of love and war that ranks with the greatest panoramic sagas of modern fiction, moving the famed literary critic Edmond Fuller to write: "Were Miss Kaye to produce no other book, The Far Pavilions might stand as a lasting accomplishment in a single work comparable to Margaret Mitchell's achievement in Gone With the Wind."
Author : Edward Schatz
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503614336
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Slow Anti-Americanism written by Edward Schatz and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negative views of the United States abound, but we know too little about how such views affect politics. Drawing on careful research on post-Soviet Central Asia, Edward Schatz argues that anti-Americanism is best seen not as a rising tide that swamps or as a conflagration that overwhelms. Rather, "America" is a symbolic resource that resides quietly in the mundane but always has potential value for social and political mobilizers. Using a wide range of evidence and a novel analytic framework, Schatz considers how Islamist movements, human rights activists, and labor mobilizers across Central Asia avail themselves of this fact, thus changing their ability to pursue their respective agendas. By refocusing our analytic gaze away from high politics, he affords us a clearer view of the slower-moving, partially occluded, and socially embedded processes that ground how "America" becomes political. In turn, we gain a nuanced appreciation of the downstream effects of US foreign policy choices and a sober sense of the challenges posed by the politics of traveling images. Most treatments of anti-Americanism focus on politics in the realm of presidential elections and foreign policies. By focusing instead on symbols, Schatz lays bare how changing public attitudes shift social relations in politically significant ways, and considers how changing symbolic depictions of the United States recombine the raw material available for social mobilizers. Just like sediment traveling along waterways before reaching its final destination, the raw material that constitutes symbolic America can travel among various social groups, and can settle into place to form the basis of new social meanings. Symbolic America, Schatz shows us, matters for politics in Central Asia and beyond.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Strategy in Afghanistan and Recent Reports by the Afghanistan Study Group and the Atlantic Council of the United States written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adriana Carboni
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984508768
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)
Download or read book The Adventures of a Train Trekker written by Adriana Carboni and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wrote this book to share the excitement, spirit and adventure of long-distance train travel. I hope that train trekkers and future trekkers alike will enjoy reading this book as much as I enjoyed writing it. Adriana Sydney 2021
Author : Halima Adam
Publisher : Writers Republic LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Sunrise with Noor written by Halima Adam and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunrise with Noor is a story about Ahmed who is on a journey to discover himself. Growing up in Afghanistan in the late 1990s, Ahmed had a hard time accepting his sister's role as the breadwinner. Feeling incompetent and unable to be the "man of his family", Ahmed leaves Afghanistan abandoning his family and making his travels to Kashmir to join the army. Ahmed believes that the soldiers are good men. Ahmed's experience takes a toll, making it hard for him to believe he is becoming a good person. Sunrise with Noor is a sequel to Sunset Through Grey Eyes. Read to discover Ahmed's journey to Kashmir.
Author : M. Webber
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137271612
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book NATO’s Post-Cold War Trajectory written by M. Webber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two decades since the watershed of the Cold War, this book investigates NATO's staying power. This book investigates how the Alliance has adapted and managed to attend to new roles and purposes through the lens of International Relations theory. The Alliance will continue, but will remain subject to ongoing crises and challenges of change.
Author : Con Coughlin
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250043042
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Churchill's First War written by Con Coughlin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in Great Britain by Macmillan"--Title page verso.
