Further Reading
Caroe, Olaf. The Pathans 550 B.C.–A.D. 1957. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958.
Chayes, Sarah. The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban. New York: The Penguin Press, 2006.
Churchill, Winston S. The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War. Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 1898, 2005.
Coll, Steve. The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century. New York: The Penguin Press, 2008.
——. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. New York: The Penguin Press, 2004.
Crile, George. Charlie Wilson’s War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times. New York: Grove Press, 2003.
Dupree, Louis. Afghanistan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973.
Dupree, Nancy. An Historical Guide to Afghanistan. Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghan Tourist Organization, 1977.
Gandhi, Rajmohan. Ghaffar Khan: Nonviolent Badhshah of the Pakhtuns. New Delhi: Penguin Viking, 2004.
Ghani, Ashraf, and Clare Lockhart. Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Giustozzi, Antonio, ed. Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
Jones, Owen Bennett. Pakistan: Eye of the Storm. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002.
Kiviat, Katherine, and Scott Heidler. Women of Courage: Intimate Stories from Afghanistan. Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2007.
Macintyre, Ben. The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004, xiii–xiv, 209–29.
Mohsin, Hamid. The Reluctant Fundamentalist. New York: Houghton Miffl in Harcourt, 2007.
Neumann, Ronald E. The Other War: Winning and Losing in Afghanistan. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2009.
Peters, Gretchen. Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2009.
Poullada, Leon B., and Leila D. J. Poullada. The Kingdom of Afghanistan and the United States: 1828–1973. Omaha and Lincoln, NB: The Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Dageforde Publishing, 1995.
Rashid, Ahmed. Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.
——. Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia. New York: Viking, 2008.
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight’s Children. New York: Random House, 1995.
Sanger, David E. The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power. New York: Crown, 2009.
Toynbee, Arnold. Between Oxus and Jumma. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961.
Van Dyk, Jere. Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban. New York: Times Books, 2010.
——. In Afghanistan: An American Odyssey. New York: Coward-McCann, 1983.
Woodward, Bob. Bush at War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
——. Plan of Attack. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
——. State of Denial. Bush at War, Part III. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
——. The War Within, a Secret White House History 2006–2008. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.
——. Obama’s Wars. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010.
Zaeef, Abdul Zalam, with Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, eds. My Life with the Taliban. London: Hurst & Company, 2010.
