Afghanistan
Subtitle: lifting the veil
By: [by the staff of] Reuters.
Contributors: Reuters ltd.
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Taliban.; Islamic fundamentalism -- Afghanistan.; Islam and politics -- Afghanistan.; Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 1973-.
Description: "In a narrative with images and words from Reuters journalists, this book charts the Afghan struggle through the Soviet occupation, during the harsh rule of the Taliban, and into what President George W. Bush called "the first war of the 21st century."" "The book describes the "Great Game" that the big powers played with Afghanistan and includes a section of previously unpublished war photography from the Soviet era."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Sebastian Junger; title: The tormented state / Tom Heneghan; title: The graveyard of invaders / Brian Williams, Mikhail Evstafiev, Sayed Salahuddin; title: Life under the Taliban / Sayed Salahuddin; title: The enigma of Osama bin Laden / Andrew Marshall; title: The unseen war / Jane Macartney; title: A nation of refugees / David Fox; title: Behind the burqa / Rosalind Russell; title: A cautious dawn / Paul Holmes.