 | Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.06 A horrifying opening chapter paves the way for the most insightful read on the taliban. Ahmed Rashid is the best expert on the subject.
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 | Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban by Larry P. Goodson
Buy new: $16.88 / Used from: $2.20 A brief but insightful look at how infighting between rival factions gave rise to state failure and the taliban
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 | Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan by Michael Griffin
Buy used from: $0.12 Informative read on the Taliban's ability to hold on to power through their international links to Saudi Arabia and America
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 | Essential Field Guides to Humanitarian and Conflict Zones: Afghanistan (Essential Field Guides to Humanitarian and Conflict Zones)
Buy used from: $98.32 Essential for anyone planning to do humanitarian work in Afghanistan. Complete with pictures and maps of streets
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 | Fundamentalism Reborn?: Afghanistan Under the Taliban by William Maley
Buy new: $23.00 / Used from: $2.32 An older book of essays by the best authorities on the rise of the Taliban
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 | The Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan: Mass Mobilization, Civil War, and the Future of the Region by Neamatollah Nojumi
Buy new: $14.78 / Used from: $0.01 Essential reading finished after 9/11 about how foreign involvement created the Taliban
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 | Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Robert D. Kaplan
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $2.35 The best travelogue on Kaplan's journey with the mujahidin during the Afghan War. Kaplan's books should not be missed
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 | Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan (Cambridge Middle East Library) by Olivier Roy
Buy new: $38.70 / Used from: $30.00 Oliver Roy's book is a bit older but very unique in it's observation that the Islamicists who gave rise to the Taliban are not backward-looking
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 | Adventures in Afghanistan by Louis Palmer
Buy new: $19.00 / Used from: $0.02 Amazing travels of the author on a mission to assist the mujahidin resistance
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 | Afghanistan by Chris Steele-Perkins
Buy new: $38.00 / Used from: $4.69 Pictures that will make you cry as the author revisits war-torn Afghanistan during the course of 5 years
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 | The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan by Artyom Borovik
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $1.77 Captures the war is hell mentality by describing the "Vietnam" undertones of the Soviet's unclear purpose for wreaking havoc on the Mujahidin
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 | An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan by Jason Elliot
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $0.25 A wonderful first effort by this British author whose journey is unexpectedly beautiful and enchanting
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| The Endless Jihad: The Mujahidin, the Taliban and Bin Laden by Shaul Shay
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $22.95 Essential reading by a counterterrorism think tank member who documents how many countries support jihad
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 | The Taliban: War and Religion in Afghanistan, Revised Edition by Peter Marsden
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $0.01 A great read by a well-known scholar who knew the reality of Afghanistan long before 9/11
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 | The Women of Afghanistan Under the Taliban by Rosemarie Skaine
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $1.09 A somewhat expensize but necessary read on the women in Afghanistan and their toil
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 | The Kite Runner (Alex Awards (Awards)) by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: $14.52 / Used from: $0.50 A heartfelt story about a boy who grows up under oppression
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 | With All Our Strength: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan by Anne E. Brodsky
Buy new: $30.36 / Used from: $10.44 The not to be missed story of RAWA's triumph in the name of Zarmeena
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| Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad by David B. Edwards
Buy new: $48.00 / Used from: $39.95 For the studious reader seeking information on every detail of ethnic backgrounds of rival factions
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