# Silk Road Books & Photos

## Louis Dupree (Page 1 of 2)

#### 1 | #### Dupree Louis | #### Afghanistan
Oxford Univ Press Pakistan Paperback with epilogue concerning Soviet invasion. Encyclopedic account of Afghan history from the Paleonothic period onwards. £40
#### 2 | #### Dupree Louis | #### Afghanistan
Hardback 1973 in dust wrapper. Princeton University Press. £112
#### 3 | #### Dupree, Louis | #### Retreat From Kabul
This is an account of a trip that Dupree took tracing the journey by the retreating British Army during the Winter of 1841. Dupree similarly set out on his journey in the month of January 1963. He visited villages along the route collecting accounts of the battles fought against the retreating British. Dupree found that oral Afghan accounts largely matched the version of events recorded by historians in relation to the retreat from Kabul. Photocopy from Historical and cultural quarterly of Afghanistan 1974 IN HARDBACK BLACK CLOTH BINDING. £25 (SIMPLE PHOTOCOPY: £15)
#### 4 | #### Dupree, Louis | #### Afghan and British Military Tactics in the First Anglo Afghan War
Seven pages and one map. Photocopy 1977 Army Quarterly Review. £5
#### 5 | #### Dupree Louis | #### Cultural Change Amongst the Mujahedin and Muhajerin
1988 Pages 20-37 photocopy of this article £10
#### 6 | #### Dupree Louis | #### Light at the End of the Tunnel
1989 photocopy of article about Geneva Accords. Pages 29-51. £10
#### 7 | #### DUPREE, LOUIS | #### Afghanistan's Big Gamble: Parts I-III
Kabul/New York, American Universities Field Staff (AUFS). 1960. AUFS Reports Service. South Asia Series, Vol IV, Nos 3-5 (Afghanistan), Kabul, April 29, May 2 and May 9, 1960. 20 + 20 +10pp, 6 maps, 12 photo illustrations, 1 chart, 5 appendices. 4to/28cm. Part I is sub-titled: Historical Background of Afghan-Russian Relations; Part II The Economic and Strategic Aspects of Soviet Aid; Part III: Economic Competition in Afghanistan. The author (1925-1989) had started his long connection with Afghanistan just a few months before. By the time of the publication of his authoritative volume Afghanistan by the Princeton University press in 1973 and his previous voluminous writings in smaller formats, he had become one of the (if not the) foremost American academic specialists on Afghanistan. After his death, the library of he and his wife Nancy Hatch Dupree was donated to Duke University. PHOTOCOPY OF ALL THREE PARTS. £15
#### 8 | #### DUPREE, LOUIS | #### The Bamboo Curtain in Kabul: An American Finds Communication with the Chinese Embassy Closed to Him
New York, American Universities Field Staff (AUFS). 1960. Photocopy, stapled. AUFS Reports Service, South Asia Series, Vol IV, No 7 (Afghanistan), [LD-7-'60], Kabul, July 31, 1960. 7pp. 4to/28cm. An interesting little vignette about the attempt of a gutsy American academic to cultivate relations with someone in the Chinese Embassy, Kabul. The author (c1925-1989), later a prolific writer on Afghanistan, and perhaps the leading American authority of his generation on it, was known for his free wheeling and earthy style--this is a good example of it. £10
#### 9 | #### DUPREE, LOUIS | #### The Burqa Comes Off
New York, Amercan Universities Field Staff (AUFS). 1959. AUFS Reports Service, South Asia Series, Vol III, No 2 (Afghanistan), [LD-2-50], Kabul, Sept 9, 1959. 4pp. 4to/28cm. Photocopy, stapled. The author, Louis Dupree (1925-1989) just starting his long stint as AUFS representative in Kabul, had arrived in Kabul a few weeks earlier just in time to witness, "one of the most important events in the history of modern Afghanistan", the taking off of the burqa or choudry by the Royal Family and the female family members of other high officials of the Afghan government and military. It occurred during the 1959 Jeshyn (Independence) celebrations. His brief but pithy comments sum up the excitement it conveyed. Another observer who was present remembers the event at which it occurred and noted mainly how conservative the dark dress of the newly 'uncovered' females was: dark dresses well below the knees, dark glasses, head scarf and gloves. A copy of an ephemeral report by one of the most literate and perceptive recent Western observers of the Afghan scene. £15
#### 10 | #### DUPREE, LOUIS | #### The Mountains Go To Mohammad Zahir: Observations on Afghanistan's Reactions to Visits from Nixon, Bulganin-Krushchev, Eisenhower and Krushchev
New York, Amercan Universities Field Staff (AUFS). 1960. AUFS Reports Service, South Asia Series, Vol IV, No 6 (Afghanistan) [LD-6-60], Kabul, May 20, 1960. 40pp, 1 map, 2 diagrams, 13 photo illustrations, 8 appendices. 4to/28cm. Newsletter format, light wear only VG+. Appendices include texts of joint communiques, the Afghan-Soviet Treaty Protocol and some of the formal speeches and toasts. Louie's analysis and commentary show the beginnings of the punchy but perspicacious style he later developed to near perfection. Wilber 45 ("Occasional reports..by an unusually well-informed observer"). Scarce. £25
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