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Invisible history : Afghanistan's untold story / by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: Publication details: San Francisco : City Lights Books, c2009Description: x, 389 p. : maps ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780872864948
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • DS 357.5 .F58 2009

Bibliography: (p. 371-376) and index.

Contents: Prologue: A clockwork Afghanistan -- Pt. I: Afghanistan from antiquity to the 1960s. Problems with the historical record ; The British are coming ; The Great Game ; Twentieth-century Afghanistan ; A background to Cold War policy -- Pt. II: Afghanistan from the 1970s to 2001. Team-B ; The 1979 winter nightmare ; Summer 1980 ; The Reagan era ; Moscow's new regime ; A new decade : a new and more dangerous Afghanistan ; 1995-2001 : the Taliban -- Pt. III: Afghanistan from 2001 to 2008. Countdown to 9

11 ; Kabul, October 7,2001 ; Afghanistan redux ; Afghanistan and the region ; Geopolitical realities vs. Osama bin Laden, superstar ; What can President Barack Obama do? -- Epilogue: The twenty-first chapter.

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