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Free Download Ahmad Shuja Jamal, "The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan"
English | ISBN: 0197694721 | 2023 | 304 pages | EPUB | 887 KB
The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 was the result of declining active support for the government, and of waste and inefficiency in aid delivery. Yet, while corrosive, these problems were not in themselves sufficient to have brought about a collapse. To a significant degree, they were the result of early failings in institutional design, reflecting an American inclination to pursue short-term policy approaches that created perverse incentives-thus interfering with the long-term objective of stability.

Free Download Corporal Cannon: A Female Marine in Afghanistan by Savannah Cannon
English | September 16, 2022 | ISBN: 1636241662 | 330 pages | PDF | 1.47 Mb
"…a dramatic, sobering account of prejudice and the mistreatment of women in combat zones." – Publishers Weekly

Free Download Heather Bleaney, Maria Angeles Gallego, C. H. Bleaney, "Afghanistan: A Bibliography"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 900414532X | PDF | pages: 411 | 83.7 mb
This up-to-date, comprehensive, thematically indexed bibliography devoted to Afghanistan now and yesterday will help readers to efficiently find their way in the massive secondary literature available.

Free Download Omar Sadr, "Negotiating Cultural Diversity in Afghanistan"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1032175850, 113837105X | EPUB | pages: 256 | 1.4 mb
This book analyses the problematique of governance and administration of cultural diversity within the modern state of Afghanistan and traces patterns of national integration. It explores state construction in twentieth-century Afghanistan and Afghan nationalism, and explains the shifts in the state’s policies and societal responses to different forms of governance of cultural diversity. The book problematizes liberalism, communitarianism, and multiculturalism as approaches to governance of diversity within the nation-state. It suggests that while the western models of multiculturalism have recognized the need to accommodate different cultures, they failed to engage with them through intercultural dialogue. It also elaborates the challenge of intra-group diversity and the problem of accommodating individual choice and freedom while recognising group rights and adoption of multiculturalism. The book develops an alternative approach through synthesising critical multiculturalism and interculturalism as a framework on a democratic and inclusive approach to governance of diversity.

Free Download The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker, Kirsten Potter, Random House Audio
English | 2011 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B004T7CXKA | MP3@64 Kbps | Duration: 9 h 54 m | 273 Mb
Now a Major Motion Picture titled Whiskey Tango Foxtrot starring Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina, and Billy Bob Thornton.
From tea with warlords in the countryside to parties with drunken foreign correspondents in the "dry" city of Kabul, journalist Kim Barker captures the humor and heartbreak of life in post-9/11 Afghanistan and Pakistan in this profound and darkly comic memoir. As Barker grows from awkward newbie to seasoned reporter, she offers an insider’s account of the region’s "forgotten war" at a time when all eyes were turned to Iraq. Candid, self-deprecating, and laugh-out-loud funny, Barker shares both her affection for the absurdities of these two hapless countries and her fear for their future stability.

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Free Download The Return of the Taliban
by Abbas, Hassan;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0300267886 | 326 pages | True PDF | 25.55 MB

Free Download The Mercenary: A Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan War (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0B8L6JH45 | 2023 | 10 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 306 MB
Author: Jeffrey E. Stern
Narrator: Ray Corasani
A thrilling and emotional story about the bonds forged in war and good intentions gone wrong. In the early days of the Afghanistan war, Jeff Stern was scouring the streets of Kabul for a big story. He was accompanied by a driver, Aimal, who had ambitions of his own: to get rich off the sudden infusion of foreign attention and cash. In this gripping adventure story, Stern writes of how he and Aimal navigated an environment full of guns and danger and opportunity, and how they forged a deep bond. Then Stern got a call that changed everything. He discovered that Aimal had become an arms dealer, and was ultimately forced to flee the country to protect his family from his increasingly dangerous business partners. Tragic, powerful, and layered, The Mercenary is more than a wartime drama. It is a Rashomon-like story about how politics and violence warp our humanity, and keep the most important truths hidden.

Free Download The American War in Afghanistan: A History 1st Edition (Audiobook)
English | November 30, 2021 | ASIN: B09M56GLZK | MP3@64 kbps | 27h 3m | 735.44 MB
Author: Carter Malkasian
Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross
The first authoritative history of American’s longest war by one of the world’s leading scholar-practitioners.

Free Download Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires: Why the Most Powerful Armies of Their Time Found Only Defeat or Shame in This Land of Endless Wars (Audiobook)
English | December 01, 2021 | ASIN: B09MRDP68L | MP3@64 kbps | 3h 17m | 92.81 MB
Author: John A. Tyler
Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick
During the spring and summer of 2021, global news reports were filled with the impending US/NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan. At best, it would be viewed as a stalemate, with an orderly transition to a stable, US-backed Afghan government. At worse, it would be looked upon as two decades of futile war, ending with a shameful retreat that left the county at the mercy of a ruthless Taliban regime. What went wrong?