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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    • 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 1,344 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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    • 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 51 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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    • 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 2,257 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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    • By: Deborah Ellis
    • Narrated by: Meera Simhan
    • Series: The Breadwinner (Ellis), Book 2
    • Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • "My life is dust and rocks and rude boys and skinny babies, and long days of searching for my mother when I don’t have the faintest idea where she might be". Parvana is alone. Her father is dead. A refugee in a land full of dangers....

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    • America’s War in Afghanistan
    • By: Seth G. Jones
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 159 ratings
    • A political history of Afghanistan in the “Age of Terror” from 2001 to 2009, exploring the fundamental tragedy of America’s longest war since Vietnam....

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    • An Insider’s Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan
    • By: Gary C. Schroen
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • While America held its breath in the days immediately following 9/11, a small but determined group of CIA agents covertly began to change history....

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    • America's Last Days in Afghanistan
    • By: Andrew Quilty
    • Narrated by: John Robertson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut publication offers a remarkable record of this historic moment....

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    • Operations Red Wings and Whalers - the Marine Corps' Battle for Freedom in Afghanistan
    • By: Ed Darack
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 174 ratings
    • In late June, 2005, 19 US special-operations personnel died at the hands of insurgent/terrorist leader Ahmad Shah. One man survived. Victory Point reveals the complete, as-yet untold story of Operation Red Wings and the follow-on mission, Operation Whalers....

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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 117 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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    • The True Story of an American Ranger at War in Afghanistan and Iraq
    • By: Nicholas Moore, Mir Bahmanyar
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 379 ratings
    • Sweeping from frozen mountaintops to dusty city streets, and everything in between, this is the gripping and deeply personal account of an elite Ranger who nearly lost his life "leading the way" in America's secretive global wars....

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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 622 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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    • 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 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 357 ratings
    • Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism.....

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    • The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan
    • By: Michael Hastings
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 439 ratings
    • An explosive, behind-the-scenes look into the workings of the U.S. war in Afghanistan .....

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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 197 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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    • David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
    • By: Fred Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Kevin Foley
    • Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • The Insurgents unfolds against the backdrop of two wars waged against insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan....

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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 211 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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