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Afganistan, A Country Study(2267 clicks)
Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, Edited by Peter R. Blood, Research Completed 1997

Afghanist(1756 clicks)
Backgrounds about Afghanistan in German language

Afghanistan(413 clicks)

Afghanistan 1969-1974(495 clicks)

Afghanistan 1979-1992(227 clicks)
Extract from Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, By William Blum

Afghanistan: Images from the Harrison Forman Collection(684 clicks)
Contains 195 images which document the life and culture of Afghanistan in the late 1960s. The photographs portray the daily life of Afghanis, capture the beauty of the land, and document historic sites, including the great Buddhas of Bamiyan destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.

Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982(739 clicks)
Scholarly book by M. Hassan Kakar

Artillery And Counterinsurgency: The Soviet Experience in Afghanistan(2396 clicks)
Lester W. Grau, Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, KS. Uploaded June 1997

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier.(185 clicks)
Book by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

Edwards, David B. Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad(754 clicks)
Scholarly book

History of the Taliban(1330 clicks)
History of the Taliban: Who They Are, What They Want
By Pierre Tristam, About.com

Institute for Afghan Studies(286 clicks)
The Institute for Afghan Studies (IAS) is a non-profit, non-political and independent organization, founded and run by young Afghan scholars from around the globe. The mission of the Institute is to be a center for research and a credible source of information about Afghanistan. The Institute promotes research on social, economic, political and other issues of critical importance pertaining to Afghanistan by providing a forum and soliciting contributions from recognized Afghan and non-Afghan scholars, think-tanks and experts on Afghan studies. The Institute, nevertheless, is of the belief and conviction that Afghans themselves have the best source of information and solutions for the numerous problems facing Afghanistan today. To this end, it encourages and makes possible quality interaction between informed, educated and professional Afghans around the globe.

Kakar, M. Hassan Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982(866 clicks)

Second Afgan War, 1878-80(674 clicks)
This website is a developing online resource for anyone interested in knowing more about the Second Anglo-Afghan War of 1878-1880. It is also the home of the Second Afghan War database project, a collection of names, family histories and stories concerning those who participated in this lesser-known campaign from the days Queen Victoria's British Empire.

Silent Solider:The Man behind the Afghan Jehad(2197 clicks)
Full length book

The Afghan Taliban(2228 clicks)
The Afghan Taliban: Like It or Not, It Occupies Two-Thirds of Afghanistan and Shows No Sign of Weakening By Musa M. Maroofi, April 1998.

The Bear Trap: Afghanistan's Untold Story(2097 clicks)
Full length book

The Soviet War in Afghanistan: Histry and Harbinger of Future War?(2455 clicks)
by General (Ret) Mohammad Yahya Nawroz, Army of Afghanistan & LTC (Ret) Lester W. Grau, U.S. Army

The Taliban and Afghanistan(2024 clicks)
Implications for Regional Security and Options for International Action

War in Afghanistan, 1979-1989(2032 clicks)