Bijan Omrani

From Timur to the Taliban

The Pearl of Khorasan: A History of Herat

By C P W Gammell

William Hamilton-Dalrymple

To Boldly Go

Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers

By Nick Danziger

Adrian Weale

Goodbye to Helmand

Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World

By Christina Lamb

The Good War: Why We Couldn’t Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan

By Jack Fairweather

Diary Rooms: Being Human on the Front Line in Afghanistan

By Derek Eland

Matthew Leeming

Off Our Heads

William Reeve

Love and Literature in Afghanistan

The Bookseller of Kabul

By Asne Seierstad, Ingrid Christophersen (trans)

William Reeve

Meddling with the Mujahedin

The Storyteller's Daughter: Return to a Lost Homeland

By Saira Shah

Michael Burleigh

Grease My Palm

Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security

By Sarah Chayes

Justin Marozzi

Title Chasing

Josiah The Great: The True Story of the Man Who Would Be King

By Ben Macintyre

Matthew Leeming

Culture Clash

Kandahar Cockney: A Tale of Two Worlds

By James Fergusson

Justin Marozzi

Land of Unreason

Hazhir Teimourian

Backgammon Vs the Sword

Drinking Arak Off an Ayatollah’s Beard: A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan

By Nicholas Jubber

Michael Burleigh

War Without End?

Descent into Chaos: How the War Against Islamic Extremism is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia

By Ahmed Rashid

Patrick Hennessey

Pull Up a Sandbag

A Million Bullets: The Real Story of the British Army in Afghanistan

By James Fergusson

Matthew Leeming

Jewels and Giardia

The Gem Hunter: True Adventures of an American in Afghanistan

By Gary W Bowersox

Piers Brendon

Baiting the Tigers

Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan

By William Dalrymple

Nigel Jones

Of Love & War

Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill

By Michael Shelden

Churchill’s First War: Young Winston and the Fight Against the Taliban

By Con Coughlin