In Afghanistan
Subtitle: two hundred years of British, Russian and American occupation
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780230614031
Table of contents: title: Characters; title: Glossary; title: Introduction; title: Part 1: First Encounters And The First Anglo-Afghan War, 1808-1842. Wild and strange; title: A war of robbery; title: Retreat; title: Part 2: Russian Moves And The Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1842-1880. The great game; title: Afghanistan as a whole could no longer exist; title: Part 3: Making The Frontier: The Third Anglo-Afghan War And Afghan Reform, 1880-1933. The Oasis War and the Durand Line; title: Tribes generally are rising; title: Bolt from the blue; title: Part 4: Revolution And The Soviet Invasion, 1973-1994. Muslim reactionaries; title: Charlie horse; title: Fighting to the last Afghan; title: Part 5: The Taliban And The US-Led Invasion, 1994-2008. Virtue and vice; title: Sons of Dost; title: The cheaper man; title: Notes and sources; title: Bibliography