| Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War Against the Taliban Updated, Revise Edition Contributor(s): Tanner, Stephen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0306818264 ISBN-13: 9780306818264 Publisher: Da Capo Press OUR PRICE: $23.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: An up-to-date edition of the only military history of Afghanistan, including the recent operations by American and Afghan forces fighting the Taliban insurgency |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - General - History | Asia - Central Asia - History | Middle East - General |
| Dewey: 958.1 |
| LCCN: 2010290450 |
| Physical Information: 1.04" H x 6.06" W x 9.07" (1.01 lbs) 392 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For over 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads for armies and has witnessed history-shaping clashes between civilizations: Greek, Arab, Mongol, and Tartar, and, in more recent times, British, Russian, and American. When U.S. troops entered Afghanistan in the weeks following September 11, 2001, they overthrew the Afghan Taliban regime and sent the terrorists it harbored on the run. But America's initial easy victory is in sharp contrast to the difficulties it faces today in confronting the Taliban resurgence. Originally published in 2002, Stephen Tanner's Afghanistan has now been completely updated to include the crucial turn of events since America first entered the country. |