Afghanistan History

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    • A Cultural and Political History
    • By: Thomas Barfield
    • Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
    • Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 237 ratings
    • Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the 16th century to the Taliban resurgence today....

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    • The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
    • By: Steve Coll
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 26 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,286 ratings
    • The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan....

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    • Graveyard of Empires A New History of the Borderland
    • By: David Isby
    • Narrated by: Gregory Abbey
    • Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A startling history of modern Afghanistan - the story of a country caught in a vortex of terror....

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    • A Secret History of the War
    • By: Craig Whitlock, The Washington Post
    • Narrated by: Dan Bittner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,371 ratings
    • Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: Defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of 9/11....

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    • The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan
    • By: Tamim Ansary
    • Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
    • Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 359 ratings
    • Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism.....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: Barnett R. Rubin
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Afghanistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, has improbably been at the center of international geopolitics for four decades. After the Soviet Union invaded in 1980, Afghanistan descended into an unending conflict that featured at various points most of the world's major powers....

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    • The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond
    • By: Ahmed Rashid
    • Narrated by: Youssif Kamal
    • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Ahmed Rashid, called “Pakistan’s best and bravest reporter” by Christopher Hitchens, brings the shadowy world of the Taliban and its impact on Afghanistan and the Middle East and Central Asia into sharp focus in this modern classic....

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    • The Battle for Afghanistan
    • By: William Dalrymple
    • Narrated by: Sagar Arya
    • Length: 20 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • Using a range of forgotten Afghan and Indian sources, William Dalrymple's masterful retelling of Britain's greatest imperial disaster is a powerful parable of colonial ambition and cultural collision, folly and hubris. Return of a King is history at its most urgent and important....

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    • A History 1st Edition
    • By: Carter Malkasian
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 27 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • The American war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001, is now the longest armed conflict in the nation's history. It is currently winding down, and American troops are likely to leave soon - but only after a stay of nearly two decades....

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    • A True Story of Courage and Sacrifice on Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan
    • By: Malcolm MacPherson
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,876 ratings
    • For the U.S. Navy's elite team of SEALs, the mission seemed straightforward enough....

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    • A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban
    • By: Stephen Tanner
    • Narrated by: Raymond Todd
    • Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 198 ratings
    • For more than 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads not only for armies but also for clashes between civilizations....

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    • A Story of Valor in the Mountains of Afghanistan
    • By: Mitch Weiss, Kevin Maurer
    • Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 646 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
    • By: Steve Coll
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 28 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,299 ratings
    • Steve Coll tells the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11....

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    • The Untold Story of the Rangers’ Unrelenting Search for Marcus Luttrell, the Navy SEAL Lone Survivor in Afghanistan
    • By: Dr. Tony Brooks
    • Narrated by: Chris Abell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,153 ratings
    • Leave No Man Behind is a story of courage, perseverance, and patriotism behind the 75th Army Rangers’ rescue mission following one of the deadliest Special Operations incidents in Afghanistan - a grueling search for 12 Navy SEAL casualties and eight downed Night Stalkers....

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    • The True Story of US Marines Ambushed in Afghanistan and Betrayed in America
    • By: Major Fred Galvin USMC (Ret.), Sal Manna
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 520 ratings
    • A Few Bad Men is the incredible true story of an elite team of US Marines set up to take the fall for Afghanistan war crimes they did not commit—and their leader who fought for the redemption of his men....

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    • A Memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the Inception of America’s Longest War
    • By: Duane Evans
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 127 ratings
    • Veteran CIA officer Duane Evans' gripping memoir tracks his efforts to join one of CIA's elite teams bound for Afghanistan, a journey that eventually takes him to the front lines in Pakistan....

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    • On the Ground in Afghanistan with America's Elite Special Forces
    • By: Kevin Maurer
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 221 ratings
    • Until the war in Iraq, the Special Forces were the military's counterinsurgency experts. Their specialty was going behind enemy lines and training insurgent forces....

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    • The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89
    • By: Rodric Braithwaite
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • The story of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is well known: the expansionist Communists overwhelmed a poor country as a means of reaching a warm-water port on the Persian Gulf. It is a great story—but it never happened....

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    • An Afghanistan Deployment and Its Aftermath
    • By: Ben Kesling
    • Narrated by: Ben Kesling
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • 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 regiment in the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division....

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