Afghanistan

The Western-led efforts to establish a new post-Taliban order in Afghanistan are in serious trouble, and in this book Suhrke sets out to explain why. She begins with the dynamic of …

År 1894 föds Aurora Nilsson i Västerhaninge. I femtonårsåldern tvingas hon ta jobb som tjänsteflicka i Stockholm och några år senare gifter hon sig med radiotelegrafisten Rune …

In December 1979 the USSR’s 40th Army crossed the border into Afghanistan. Special forces troops – the infamous GRU Spetsnaz – and KGB agents had already entered the country and in …

Influential fundraising groups and senators in the US made enormous efforts in the First Afghan War to present the Mujahedeen as 'freedom fighters' even while the CIA secretly …

'My fingers close around the trigger. I pause for a split second to think about the bullets I am about to spray across the ground. After today, I'll no longer be the new …

Tre tiår. Moskva, 1965. Da Leo Demidovs verste frykt blir virkelighet og et tragisk mord ødelegger alt han er glad i, krever han kun én ting: at han får lov å finne morderen som …

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 …

_______________'A formidable arching tale about loss and foreignness' - Financial Times'Powerful, epic yet skilfully controlled … Shamsie's voice is clear and compelling, with a …

How does the Taliban wage war? How has its war changed over time? Firstly, the movement’s extraordinary military operation relies on financial backing. This volume analyses such …

Drugs, war and terrorism were the unholy trinity that brought the US-led air campaign crashing down on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in October 2001 in Operation Enduring …