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 1,346 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 2,259 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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    • 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 119 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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    • 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 18 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 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 24 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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    • 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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    • 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 118 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 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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    • 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 626 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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    • America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014
    • By: Carlotta Gall
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • A journalist with deep knowledge of the region provides "an enthralling and largely firsthand account of the war in Afghanistan" (Financial Times)....

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    • Inside the Cockpit of the World’s Most Deadly Fighting Machine
    • By: Ed Macy
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Apache is the incredible true story of Ed Macy, a decorated Apache helicopter pilot, that takes you inside one of the world's most dangerous war machines....

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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 213 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 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 100 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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    • The true story of an Afghan doctor who found the meaning of life by following Rumi’s philosophy of living.
    • By: Dr. Farid Mostamand
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-24
    • Language: English
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    • “A moving and revealing story of a troubled country’s past.”- Kirkus Review After fulfilling his lifelong dream of becoming a doctor working ...

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