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Cabool
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3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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The Place of the Skull
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4.30 avg rating — 2,268 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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Modern Afghanistan: A History of Struggle and Survival
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3.98 avg rating — 44 ratings
"Very thorough & insightful history of the making of the modern nation state of Afghanistan"
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rated it 5 stars
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The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
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3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA
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4.12 avg rating — 4,017 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared
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4.03 avg rating — 1,340 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep
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4.19 avg rating — 2,084 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas
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2.93 avg rating — 95 ratings
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rated it 2 stars
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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
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4.31 avg rating — 18,809 ratings
"Excellent & gripping account of how helping defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan led us to 9/11 (and the possible ways it could have been stopped)"
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rated it 5 stars
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Mission To Tashkent
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3.82 avg rating — 207 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire
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4.26 avg rating — 818 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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Quest for Kim: In Search of Kipling's Great Game
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3.96 avg rating — 438 ratings
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rated it 5 stars
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Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia
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4.20 avg rating — 1,093 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia
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4.17 avg rating — 1,563 ratings
"Classic book on the amazing explorers to NW China and their historical finds"
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rated it 5 stars
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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
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4.33 avg rating — 9,110 ratings
"The classic overview of Central Asian's Great Game history"
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rated it 5 stars
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Kandahar Cockney : A Tale of Two Worlds
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3.46 avg rating — 41 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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Escape de Kabul
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3.77 avg rating — 39 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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Come Back to Afghanistan
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3.87 avg rating — 357 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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The Carpet Wars: From Kabul to Baghdad: A Ten-Year Journey Along Ancient Trade Routes
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4.06 avg rating — 474 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story
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3.90 avg rating — 1,761 ratings
"First half of this book gives a wonderful glimpse into the private lives of normal Afghans and is a plea not to lump them in with the likes of al Qaeda types"
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rated it 4 stars
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The Bookseller of Kabul
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3.77 avg rating — 56,929 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan
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3.62 avg rating — 47 ratings
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rated it 2 stars
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Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban
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3.91 avg rating — 1,259 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
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3.98 avg rating — 4,802 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban
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3.91 avg rating — 750 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan
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3.87 avg rating — 1,347 ratings
"Excellent pre/post-9/11 history of the ravaging of Afghanistan and its people"
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rated it 5 stars
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The Kite Runner
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4.36 avg rating — 3,483,941 ratings
"A must-read to better understand the ethnic tensions that beset Afghanistan's peoples"
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rated it 5 stars
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The Long Way Back: Afghanistan’s Quest for Peace
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3.39 avg rating — 23 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran
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3.77 avg rating — 2,196 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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