Stephen Tanner
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For over 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads for armies and has witnessed history-shaping clashes between civilizations: Greek, Arab, Mongol, and Tartar, and, in more recent times, British, Russian, and American. When U.S. troops entered Afghanistan in the weeks following September 11, 2001, they overthrew the Afghan Taliban regime and sent the terrorists it harbored on the run. But America's initial...
2) Afghanistan
Author
Language
English
Description
For over 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads not only for armies but also for clashes between civilizations. An understanding of the military history of that blood-soaked land is essential now as America faces a new enemy on this land, a land that for centuries has become a graveyard of empires past.
3) Ken Kesey
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 444
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
159 p., [1] leaf of plate : port. ; 21 cm.
Language
English