Afganistan

This powerful book exposes how gendered Orientalism is wielded to justify Western imperialism.Over the last ten years, Western governments and mainstream media have utilized …

An "e;enthralling"e; memoir of a woman who risked her life to help a people under siege and a country caught between freedom and oppression (Publishers Weekly-starred …

Jamil Ahmad skriver med uvanlig ømhet og innsikt om en verden styrt av gamle skikker og tilsynelatende grusomhet, av kjærlighet og omsorg, av forsakelser og kamp for å overleve. En …

This book explores Puritanism and its continuing influence on U.S. and military law in the Global War on Terror, exploring connections between Puritanism and notions of …

Krigsherjede Kabul er full av uforglemmelige historier. I denne boken av prisbelønnede Anders Sømme Hammer skriver han om en av de meste gripende: En afghansk ung kvinnes kamp for …

After 2005, the United States and coalition partners led an air advisory campaign to rebuild the Afghan Air Force (AAF). From the 1920s Afghanistan maintained a smallish air arm …

An incisive, authoritative account of the West’s failures in Afghanistan, from 9/11 to the fall of Kabul   In 1958, Richard Nixon described Afghanistan as “unconquerable.” On 15 …

Shortlisted for The Society for Army Historical Research's 2024 Templer Medal for best first book.After twenty years of almost unbroken wars of choice, the ethical deficiencies in …

Middle East and Counter-Terrorism expert Anthony Paice uses research and analysis to trace the underlying causes of the Iraqi takeover of Kuwait in 1990, adding his own personal …

Trading Worlds is an anthropological study of a little understood yet rapidly expanding global trading diaspora, namely the Afghan merchants of Afghanistan, Central Asia and …