books about: taliban     books:       The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban28 reviews Sarah Chayes Penguin Press HC, The, 2006 Great Insight "The Punishment of Virtue" gives the reader great insight into the political conflicts that went on in Afghanistan during the early years of US occupation. It has much relevence to what is going on today. The book also provides a brief history of the country as well as some cultural background, good book!             Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time1271 reviews Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007 How to make an Englishman cry Listen - I'm a guy, and I'm English. I don't show emotions much, and I never cry. I don't read much, and I have never read a book about this kind of subject before. This book brought me to the verge of tears again and again. The story is so completely inspiring and gripping that you will be drawn into it, drawn into Greg Mortenson as he lives through this incredible series of ups and downs. ...             The Kite Runner2459 reviews Khaled Hosseini Riverhead Trade, 2004 Moving, Very Well Written I recently started a book club and this was our first pick. It could not have been a better choice. Everyone had it read in plenty of time. No complaints on the choice I made either. This book tells a very emotionally charged story. Once I started reading it, I was constantly stealing time to read, until it was finished. Hope there is a part II.             Winter in Kandahar89 reviews Steven E. Wilson Hailey-Grey Books, 2003 Great Read!! I REALLY enjoyed this novel and would rate it up there with some of my favorite all-time entertaining books like The Day of the Jackal and The Firm. I'm a former business major, but I found the scientific part about the new type of virus weapon understandable and chilling. I hated to see the book end, but the finale was powerful...just like the rest of the story. I highly recommend Winter in ...             Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10747 reviews Marcus Luttrell Little, Brown and Company, 2007 Typical Day of a Navy SEAL The author decribes in detail what it takes to become a Navy SEAL and why that training paid off. He tells us how his buddies were killed and how he was badly wounded. The mission was the largest loss of SEALs in it's history. Eleven SEALs were killed by the Taliban on the same day. He makes me proud to be an American! He tells us about the media and how wrong they can be at times. The ...             Afghanistan: A Military History From Alexander The Great To The Fall Of The Taliban12 reviews Stephen Tanner Da Capo Press, 2003 Overall Hostory of Afghanistan I wanted to study up on the region while I was assigned there, and I read many books from Amazon.com. Many had bits and pieces of the history, but this book had a grand view from early times of Alexander the Great, the Muslim invasions, the Mongol conquest to later times during the Soviet invasion and the later rise of the Taliban. This book is essential and provides a basic understanding of ...             The Ghost War35 reviews Alex Berenson Putnam Adult, 2008 A Refreshingly Intelligent Story Many times you read books in this genre and are disappointed with the illogical twists and turns used in the plot or the development of the characters. I have read Berenson's first book and enjoyed it and his main character, John Wells. The second books are often disappointing but this one was both exciting and real. I highly recommend Mr. Berenson's books to people who are looking for a ...             A Thousand Splendid Suns1289 reviews Kathy, Widenhouse Riverhead, 2007 Terrific While I have to be honest and say that I didn't enjoy this novel *quite* as much as The Kite Runner, I still think it was a terrific book! Again I enjoyed being taken on a journey in Afghanistan, a place that I don't know much of anything about. It delves into a topic that I feel also many of us do not know about or understand and that's the life of a woman and her role in the family in that ...             Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia144 reviews Ahmed Rashid Yale University Press, 2001 All about religion and Mullah Omar fundamentalism ... If you want to understand Afghanistan latest history, this is a great choice. The narrative is center on the Talibans of course, how this group was invented after the end of the cold war and after fighting against the Soviets in a united front known as the Mujaheddin. It is clear to all of us that the Taliban are Islamic Fundamentalist and that its presence on Afghanistan has rendered the country ...             The Bookseller of Kabul131 reviews Asne Seierstad Back Bay Books, 2004 Excellent book This book provides an excellent portrait of Afghanistan. Very well written, easy to read. Great choice for book clubs; full of material for great discussions.             Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent ...201 reviews George Crile Grove Press, 2004 The enemies of our enemies are not our friends... Charlie Wilson's War may be one-sided, but it's still a very interesting read, especially in these post-9/11 days. Years before the words Taliban and al Qaeda were in everyday use, or for that matter, even familiar to most Americans, the CIA was waging a secret war in Afghanistan. Having grown up in the tail end of the Cold War, the threat of the USSR never really gripped me the way it did ...             After the Taliban: Nation-Building in Afghanistan Amb. James F. Dobbins Potomac Books Inc., 2008 In October 2001, the Bush administration sent Amb. James F. Dobbins, who had overseen nation-building efforts in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo, to war-torn Afghanistan to help the Afghans assemble a successor government to the Taliban. From warlords to exiled royalty, from turbaned tribal chieftains to elegant émigré intellectuals, Ambassador Dobbins introduces a range of colorful Afghan figures competing for dominance in the new ...             My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story41 reviews Latifa Miramax, 2003 My Forbidden Face : Growing Up Under the Taliban - A Young Woman's Story My Forbidden Face : Growing Up Under the Taliban - A Young Woman's Story, is a firsthand account of a young girl under the Taliban. The Book begins as 16 year old Latifa, and ends when she is twenty one. I thought this book was very well written, and very enjoyable. I thought the book was kind of fluffy, meaning that, though it gave us information about the Taliban, and what it was like living ...             Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan (Columbia/Hurst)2 reviews Antonio Giustozzi Columbia University Press, 2007 Very Timely Publication - Giustozzi tells it like it is Dr. Giustozzi brings a refreshing and honest take on the situation in Afghanistan. He dispels the Western propaganda of success and reconstruction and instead offers the reader an insight into the resurgence of the Taliban and the threats that it poses.             Opium Season: A Year on the Afghan Frontier11 reviews Joel Hafvenstein The Lyons Press, 2007 Rings true to me I just retired as a USAID Foreign Service Officer after 26 years of service. Although I didn't work in Afghanistan (I just spent the last 3 years in post tsunami Sri Lanka) I have the experience to critically consider Joel Hafvenstein's Opium Season and in my judgment it is an important contribution to development literature as a personal account. It is well written and hard to put down. He ...             The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan1 review Harvard University Press, 2008 A fascinating book This book is extremely well written and is a fount of information. It is a must for anyone trying to understand the mess in Afghanistan.             Funding Evil, Updated: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It15 reviews Rachel Ehrenfeld Bonus Books, 2005 Essential reading Funding Evil will arm you with enough knowledge to see the outlines of the jihad strategy to spread sharia and Dar al Islam around the world. It is dense with enough detail to make it a vital reference, yet engaging and readable for mainstream audiences. It ought to be available in every library in America and the West. Scanning the book, it's not hard to see why libel tourists such as Khalid ...             Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban10 reviews Larry P. Goodson University of Washington Press, 2001 A worthwhile read Larry Goodson's Afghanistan's Endless War is a gem that shines with solid research and clear prose. This survey of Afghanistan's past will assist anyone who wishes to grasp how this central Asian country became the center of US foreign policy recently. Goodson briefly examines Afghanistan's early history when the country hosted part of the famous silk trade route that connected the occident ...             How We Missed the Story: Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban and the Hijacking of Afghanistan2 reviews Roy Gutman United States Institute of Peace Press, 2008 Failure is not an orphan John F. Kennedy famously observed that "Success has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan." Roy Gutman demonstrates that JFK had it backwards. Many of us are old enough to remember the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. We're old enough too to remember the Reagan years when plucky bands of raggamuffin fighters, supplied with weapons by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, drove ...             DesperateLands: The War on Terror Through the Eyes of a Special Forces Soldier21 reviews Regulo Zapata Jr. Nadores Publishing & Research, 2007 The truth from the inside A great book to read if you have ever wondered what is really happening over there with the war on terror. Zapata gives us all insight as to what these soldiers go through day by day. Brings heightened respect to those who are there. Detailed information on what these soldiers face and the little time that they have to react to any situation. 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