Afghan War

Intervention Narratives examines the contradictory cultural representations of the US intervention in Afghanistan that help to justify an imperial foreign policy. These narratives involve projecting Afghans as brave anti-communist warriors who suffered...

The first rule of warfare is to know one's enemy. The second is to know thyself. More than fifteen years and three quarters of a trillion dollars after the US invasion of Afghanistan, it's clear that the United States followed neither rule well. ...

Based on the author's own conversations with President Karzai and other Afghan politicians, as well as prominent international representatives, Power Struggle Over Afghanistan is a Norwegian diplomat's account of his two years at the United Nations. Eide...

Award-winning journalist Douglas A. Wissing's poignant and eye-opening journey across insurgency-wracked Afghanistan casts an unyielding spotlight on greed, dysfunction, and predictable disaster while celebrating the everyday courage and wisdom of...

A timely and searing account of the American war in Afghanistan In Bravo Company, journalist and combat veteran Ben Kesling tells the story of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of the men of one unit, part of a combat-hardened parachute infantry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623711061Author Emran FerozFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

'In clear and utterly compelling English, this moving memoir tells the story of the agony, and the ecstasy, of one refugee - and of every refugee. A must read for anyone interested in the triumph of Afghanistan's spirit over its seemingly endless...

Award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites asks the difficult questions of these combatants, many of whom he first met while in Afghanistan and Iraq and others he sought out from different wars: What is it like to kill? What is it like to be under...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501154195Author Guy LawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Pocket BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 168mm * 104mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for L.A. Times Book Prize (Current Interest) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780446556248Author Sebastian JungerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Warner Books...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425253595Author Kevin MaurerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

The never-before-told story of one of the most decorated units in the war in Afghanistan and its fifteen-month ordeal that culminated in the 2008 Battle of Wanat, the war's deadliestA single company of US paratroopers--calling themselves the "Chosen...

In a remote, enemy-held valley in Afghanistan, a Special Forces team planned to scale a steep mountain to surprise and capture a terrorist leader. But before they found the target, the target found them... The team was caught in a deadly ambush that not...

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"That Others May Live" is a mantra that defines the fearless men of Alaska's 212th Pararescue Unit, the PJs, one of the most elite military forces on the planet. Whether they are rescuing citizens injured and freezing in the Alaskan wilderness or saving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909544581Author Dominic HagansFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm

Two years before the action in Lone Survivor, a Green Berets A Team conducted a very different, successful mission in Afghanistan's notorious Pech Valley. Led by Captain Ronald Fry, the Hammerhead Six mission applied the principles of unconventional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922389039Author Tony ParkFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ingwe PublishingPublisher Ingwe PublishingWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

There is a widespread belief that the Taliban and al-Qaeda are in many respects synonymous, that their ideology and objectives are closely intertwined and that they have made common cause against the West for decades. Such opinions have been stridently...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476795119Author Jody MiticFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm...

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Wall Street Journal Bestseller USA Today Bestseller Publishers Weekly Bestseller As Seen on Tucker Carlson Combat-decorated Marine officer Stuart Scheller speaks out against the debacle of the Afghan pullout as the culmination of a decades-long and...

The counterinsurgency (COIN) paradigm dominates military and political conduct in contemporary Western strategic thought. It assumes future wars will unfold as "low intensity" conflicts within rather than between states, requiring specialized military...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312606916Author Anthony ShafferFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

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Bradley Manning was arrested, imprisoned in solitary confinement for nine months, and court-martialed for leaking nearly half a million classified government documents, including the infamous "Collateral Murder" gunsight video. He was an intelligence...

The war in Afghanistan is now the United States' longest running war. For over a decade, the conflict raging in Central Asia has been the stage for some of the shrewdest foreign policy, fiercest wartime strategy, and most delicate diplomacy the world has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812980912Author Bing WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

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Long considered the masters of counterinsurgency, the British military encountered significant problems in Iraq and Afghanistan when confronted with insurgent violence. In their effort to apply the principles and doctrines of past campaigns, they failed...

The harrowing account of US soldiers caught in America's forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that The New York Times calls "relentless...a classic of war reporting," by Pulitzer Prize winner and former Marine C.J. Chivers. More than 2.7 million...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891418979Author Johnny RicoFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press

Counterinsurgency is defined as efforts to defeat and confine a rebellion against a constituted authority. While it has become a buzz-word in the last twenty years, it is as old as society itself. This concise history discusses the development of modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684511648Author Benjamin SledgeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

From Major General Jeffrey Schloesser-former Commanding General of the 101st Airborne Division and Regional Command-East-comes a revealing memoir of leadership in the chaos and fog of the Afghanistan War.War is the most brutal of human endeavors, and I...

Now a Wall Street Journal BestsellerIt was the right thing to do. And someone had to do it.Aziz was more than an interpreter for Force Recon Marine Chad Robichaux during Chad's eight deployments to Afghanistan. He was a teammate, brother, and friend...

The first-person account of how a small band of Green Berets used horses and laser-guided bombs to overthrow the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan after 9/11.They landed in a dust storm so thick the chopper pilot used dead reckoning and a guess to find...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771039300Author Major General David FraserFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.