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Mills Nick B

Karzai the failing American intervention and the struggle for Afghanistan

Hardback in dust wrapper John Willey and Sons 2007.

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Ahmad Mohiuddin

Saiyid Ahmad Shahid

Saiyid Ahmad Shahid established a resistance base in Swat Northern Pakistan to combat Ranjit Singh and Sikh power in the Frontier during the Nineteenth Century. The Saiyid captured Peshawar only to return it to the former Durrani ruler who had been in league with the Sikhs. The Sikhs were abducting Pashtun women, which resulted as always in a wave of resistance from Pashtun society against these invaders from India. Unfortunately The Durrani ruler of Peshawar also betrayed a plan to organize a revolt in the fort at Attock by Muslim troops in the Sikh army. Attock controls access to the Frontier Province. The Saiyid is presented as a formidable military opponent, but lacking the political savy of his opponents, which ultimately results in his opponents driving a wedge between the Saiyid, an Indian and his Pashtun hosts in the Swat valley, based on ethnic differences. This biography is written by an Indian scholar using Urdu and Persian primary sources. 1975 Indian publication hardback in dustwrapper.

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Nasiri, Omar

Inside the global Jihad How I infiltrated Al Qaeda and was abandoned by Western Intelligence

Hurst Publishers Hardback  2006 intelligence agent’s account of Afghan training camps and Modus operandi of such institutions. 336 pages.

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Noelle, Christine

State and Tribe in Nineteenth Century Afghanistan The Reign of Amir Dost Muhammad Khan (1826-1863)

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Ross Frank E

Central Asia Personal Narrative of General Josiah Harlan

Luzac and Co. 1939 157 pages one map and four plates. Hardback in dustwrapper.

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Shah, Sirdar Ikbal Ali

The Tragedy of Amanullah

Spine age faded, published in 1933, London, 15 photos, the book details the downfall of Afghanistan's King Amanullah, pp274.

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Sharq Muhammed Hassan

Bare Foot in Coarse Clothing

Interesting Memoirs of Muhammed Hassan Sharq who was not a communist but was Deputy Prime Minister and Prime Minister of Afghanistan under President Najibullah. These Memoirs were translated from Persian by Dr Sher Zaman Taizi. Mint paperback published by Area Study Centre Univ. of Peshawar. PP320.

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Shuja, Shah

Wakayat Shah Shuja

Memoirs of Shah Shuja in Dari. Paperback published in Kabul Afghanistan.

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Singh, Ganda

Ahmed Shah Durrani

Second Pakistani Edition published in Lahore 1981,pp457. The book covers the early life of Ahmed Shah Durrani, his eight invasions of India with the conquests of Lahore, Kashmir, Punjab, Delhi Affairs, struggle with the Maharatas and the campaigns against Balkh, Bokhara and Khurasan. The book also deals with the rebellion of Naseer  Khan and the battle of Panipat. A sound historical book on Ahmed Shah Durrani written by an Indian Scholar who consulted original Persian manuscripts to write this book.PP457. 
Good -very good hardback in very good dw. Foreword  by His Excellency Sardar Faiz Muhammad Khan Faizi, Kabul 1331. Faizi states that this book is based on original Persian sources and that the author of this book has "taken great pains to express his fine taste and genius in a charming and beautiful style and, in writing such a history of the Afghans as this, he has placed us, the people of Afghanistan, under a debt of gratitude."
The author writes "It was some twenty five years ago that in teh course of my researches in the eighteenth century history of India, Ahmad Shah Durrani first struck me as a great historical figure of Central Asia. I had been born and brought up in prejudices against him and had heard of him only as a robber chief who swooped diwn upon India for plunder and carried away to Afghanistan tons of Indian gold and thousands of Hindu slaves. But the more I read of him, the more impressed I became with the traits of his greatness irresistibly presenting themselves to my mind. To me he appeared to be as great as, if not greater than, Nadir Shah of Iran...In vain did I look for a comprehensive biography of Ahmad Shah. I was surprised that he had not received sufficient attention from scholars and writers and that he had not been given his merited place as a great conqueror and administrator and, above all, as the resucitator and deliverer, if not the founder, of a great Asian nation. "
The author states that he has consulted all the relevant Persian Manuscripts in India as well as those in the British Library.
Contents: 1 Introduction The Rise of The Abdalis; 2 Early Life of Ahmad Shah; 3 Election and Coronation; 4 Occupation of Kabul and Peshawar; 5 First Invasion of India: The conquest of Lahore: 6 The battle of Manupur; 7 The second invasion of India; 8 The annexation of Heart; 9 The campaigns and conquest of Khurasan; 10 The Third invasion of India:The conquest of the Panjab and Kashmir; 11 Some Minor Affairs ;12 Upheavals in the Panjab:Death of Mir Mannu and After; 13 The Fourth Invasion of India:The Panjab and Delhi Affairs;14 Expedition against the Jats; 15 Taimur Shah in the Panjab;16 Rebellion of Naseer Khan of Kalat; 17 Minor Expeditions to the Panjab; 18 The fifth invasion of India: Struggle with the Marathas; 19 The Battle of Panipat (Jan 14 1761); 20 The Affairs at Home (1760-1761) 21 The Sixth Invasion of India: The Ghalu-ghara and After (1762)
Illustrations include Ahmed Shah Durrani, Mausoleum of Sher-i-Surkh, Sardar Jahan Khan, Prince Taimur Shah Durrani, Sardar Charhat Singh Sukkarchakkia, Nawab Najib-ud-Daula Ruhila, Sardar Jassa Singh Ahluwalia, Mausoleum of Ahmad Shah Durrani at Qandahar, Map of Afghan Empire in 1762, Map of Afghan Empire in 1772 at the death of Ahmed Shah.
Pages 457 including bibliography. Published by Asia Publishing House Bombay India. 1959.

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Tabibi, Abdul H

The Political Struggle of Sayid Jamalad-Din Afghani

Publisher Baihaqi 1977 Kabul Afghanistan . Pages 36.