BiblioTravel: Afghanistan

Place: Afghanistan

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Subdivisions in Afghanistan:
Balkh - 1
Herat - 1
Kabul - 7
Kandahar - 1
Mazar-e-Sharif - 0

Books set in Afghanistan:

	Title	Author	Year Written	Time Period	Genre
1	The Afghan Campaign A sweeping novel that follows the invasion of Afghanistan by Alexander the Great from the point of view of a young soldi...	Pressfield, Steven	2006	330-327 B.C.	Novel - Historical
2	The Afghanistan Wars A heavily academic history of the recent wars in Afghanistan. Maley divides them into three main conflicts: the Soviet i...	Maley, William	2002	1979-2002	History
3	Badlands I was actually kind of disappointed in this book, though I had been looking forward to reading it since it concerns many...	Wheeler, Tony	2007	present	Travelogue
4	Charlie Wilson's War Subtitled The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History. Crile writes about the efforts of Charlie ...	Crile, George	2003	1980s	History
5	Flashman England's greatest cad in disreputable romp through the 1st Afghan war. Great on historical detail. Rumored to be the ba...	Fraser, George MacDonald	1969	1839-1842	Novel - Historical
6	Full Tilt 1st book by prolific traveler/writer. She rode her bike from Ireland to India. It's a 10 because she writes so matter...	Murphy, Dervla	1964	1960s	Travelogue
7	Ghost Wars Subtitled: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. Co...	Coll, Steve	2004	1979-2001	History
8	A Journey Through Afghanistan Subtitled A Memorial, which is fitting since this is the last days before the Soviet invasion in 1979 and a whole string...	Chaffetz, David	1981	1970s	Travelogue
9	The Kabul Beauty School This is a quick and entertaining read about the author opening a beauty school in Kabul, but the author is really full o...	Rodriguez, Deborah	2007	present	Memoir or Biography
10	The Light Garden of the Angel King Levi travelled through Aghanistan in the era when hippies and other Westerners were still flooding the area, but before ...	Levi, Peter	1972	1970s	Travelogue
11	The Mulberry Empire This is a historical epic that talks about the British invasion of Afghanistan, the consequences, and lots of detail abo...	Hensher, Philip	2002	1830s-1840s	Novel - Historical
12	Parvana's Journey The sequel to Ellis' The Breadwinner. Parvana has to trek across the chaotic and war-ravaged country to try and find her...	Ellis, Deborah	2002	2001	Young Adult
13	The Places In Between An incredible story of a Scottish man walking across the countryside, from Herat to Kabul. He passes over mountains and...	Stewart, Rory	2006	2002	Travelogue
14	A Thousand Splendid Suns This book, like the author's first novel, The Kite Runner, depicts life in Afghanistan over the last thirty years or so,...	Hosseini, Khaled	2007	1970s-present	Novel - Historical
15	Tournament of Shadows Subtitled The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia, and written with Shareen Blair Brysac. An account of t...	Meyer, Karl E.	1999	1812-1989	History
16	The Two Faces of Islam Subtitled The House of Sa'ud From Tradition to Terror. Schwartz's book starts as a relatively innocuous history of toler...	Schwartz, Stephen	2002	570-2002	History
17	Under the Persimmon Tree An Afghan girl is on her own due to the wars, and American woman accompanies her doctor husband into the area. The two s...	Staples, Suzanne Fisher	2005	2002-2003	Young Adult
18	War at the Top of the World Margolis has visited all of the places that he describes in this book, and the at times dry account held my interest (ev...	Margolis, Eric S.	1999	1947-1999	History