Author (نویسنده/ناشر):

Fitzgerald, Paul.

Second Author (نویسنده/ناشر دوم):

Gould, Elizabeth.

Statement of responsibility:

Publication/Distribution (Imprint):

San Francisco : City Lights Books, c2009

Physical Description:

x, 389 p. : maps ; 22 cm

Subjects--Topical Terms:

Afghanistan – History.
Afghanistan – Politics and government.

Class. No:

DS 357.5 .F58 2009

General Note:

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

General Note:

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

General Note:

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.