Afghanistan


The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
And the Mountains Echoed
The Bookseller of Kabul
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
The Places in Between
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
The Patience Stone
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)
War by Sebastian JungerUnspoken Abandonment by Bryan A. WoodOutlaw Platoon by Sean  ParnellHouse to House by David BellaviaLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Iraq and Afghanistan War Books
258 books — 474 voters
PIRATE’S ALLEY by Thomas J LevequeThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniBeneath a Marble Sky by John ShorsThe Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
Historical Fiction - South Asia
86 books — 29 voters

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniLost Horizon by James HiltonKim by Rudyard KiplingThe Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
TREKKING THE 'STANS
85 books — 59 voters

The Frontlines of Peace by Severine AutesserreBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenMy War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony LoydA Capitalist in North Korea by Felix AbtSketches from the Periphery by M.P. Summers
Conflict-Zone Journalism
285 books — 144 voters

Khaled Hosseini
I said to you, "Hold my hand. Nothing bad will happen." These are only words. A father's tricks, It slays your father, your faith in him. Because all I can think tonight is how deep the sea, and how vast, how indifferent. How powerless I am to protect you from it. All I can do is pray. ...more
Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer

This country has not seen and probably will never know the true level of sacrifice of our veterans. As a civilian I owe an unpayable debt to all our military. Going forward let’s not send our servicemen and women off to war or conflict zones unless it is overwhelmingly justifiable and on moral high ground. The men of WWII were the greatest generation, perhaps Korea the forgotten, Vietnam the trampled, Cold War unsung and Iraqi Freedom and Afghanistan vets underestimated. Every generation has pro ...more
Thomas M Smith

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