# Silk Road Books & Photos

## Afghanistan (Page 2 of 38)

#### 11 | #### Akbar, Syed Hyder | #### Come Back to Afghanistan
Hardback first US edition, account of young Afghan teenager who resides in California and returns to Afghanistan where his father becomes Karzai’s spokesman followed by the governorship of Kunar province bordering Pakistan. In Kunar the young teenager brings an Afghan suspected of being a insurgent by the US forces to a US base. The suspected insurgent dies in US custody a few days later. Rather surprisingly the teenager and his father the governor of the province where the death occurs suspect no wrong doing until the CIA investigates. This book offers a riveting account of the relationship of the Afghan border tribes to the Afghan state as well as the elections in Afghanistan which resulted in victory for President Karzai. Slight damage to hardback cover and dw. First US edition. £20
#### 12 | #### Afghan Students Association | #### Al Jihad Newspaper
1st January 1986 Afghan Mujahideen newspaper London broadsheet publication. Four pages. In English and Persian. £12
#### 13 | #### Alam, Mohammad Tauqir | #### The Betrayal of Afghanistan
Edited by M Y Effendi published by Area Study Centre Univ. Of Peshawar and Hanns Seidel Foundation. Hardback pictorial cover originally a PHD dissertation on the 1979-89 Afghan-Soviet War. 395 pages first edition 2008, by a former journalist of the Frontier Post and currently a lecturer in Islamia College Peshawar. £40
#### 14 | #### Ali Mohammad | #### Then the Pathan Murders
An account by a lawyer detailing famous murders which involve women, property and money disputes. The account is very informative about the traits of the Pashtun people. Paperback in original stiff card covers. Originally published in 1966. REPRINT. £55
#### 15 | #### Ali, Mohammed | #### The Afghans
The Author (Kabul) 1969. Third revised and enlarged edition. PP.183, 8 illus. An interesting account of the manners and customs of the Afghans including chapters on literature and folklore. The author held a number of ministerial portfolios in the Afghan Government including that of Deputy Prime Minister, 1953-63. Paperback , condition is very good. £20
#### 16 | #### Ali Mohammed | #### See Afghanistan – A short tourist guide of Afghanistan
1970). Kabul. A review of Afghan History. Good in original card cover. PP39 and map +Illus. £25
#### 17 | #### Ali Mohammed | #### A Cultural History of Afghanistan
1964 Kabul 255 pages hardback with dw. Contents include: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARYAN CULTURE, THE GRAECO-BACTRIAN PERIOD, THE KUSHANS, THE EPHTHALITES AND THE KUSHANO-EPHTHALITES, THE COMING OF ISLAM, RISE OF NATIONAL DYNASTIES, SUCCESSORS OF SULTAN MAHMOUD, THE GHORIDS, AFGHANS IN INDIA AND MUCH MORE. £150
#### 18 | #### Ali Mohammed | #### Afghanistan Land of Glorious Past and Bright Future
Franklin Books Programme Kabul Afghanistan. 1969 pages 197. £55
#### 19 | #### Ali Mohammed | #### Aryana or Ancient Afghanistan
1957 Historical Society of Afghanistan in soft cover and slightly worn spine o/w good copy of a rare publication . £55
#### 20 | #### Ali Mohammed | #### Afghanistan (The Mohammedzai Period)
A political history of the country since the beginning of the Nineteenth Century with emphasis on its foreign relations. Kabul 1959 hardback in very good condition. £80
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