A military history of Afghanistan : from the Great Game to the Global War on Terror / Ali Ahmad Jala...
A military history of Afghanistan : from the Great Game to the Global War on Terror / Ali Ahmad Jala...
A military history of Afghanistan : from the Great Game to the Global War on Terror / Ali Ahmad Jalali.
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Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2017]
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G 2017/1861
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English
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Physical content
xvi, 617 pages ; 25 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
A distinct geography and a turbulent history -- Highlights of the past, ancient era to 1800 -- The great game and the British invasion of Afghanistan, 1809-1839 -- The first Anglo-Afghan War 1839-1842 -- Geopolitical changes in Central Asia leading to the second Anglo-Afghan War, 1842-1878 -- The se...
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Publisher
Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2017]
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Kansas
Date Published
[2017]
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The first comprehensive history of the last two-plus centuries of warfare and international conflict in land-locked Afghanistan, from the Anglo-Afghan wars of the 1800s through the region's early 20th-century struggles to modernize, its last monarchy (1933-1973), the Soviet Union's so-called "Vietnam War" in the 1980s, and America's "War on Terror,...
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A military history of Afghanistan : from the Great Game to the Global War on Terror / Ali Ahmad Jalali.
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Modern war studies
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2017/1861
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74VKVadbLl43
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ISBN
9780700624072 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0700624074 hardcover ; alkaline paper
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355.009581
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991024099940702626
