Bijan Omrani

Escape from Kabul

The Gardener of Lashkar Gah: A True Story of the Afghans Who Risked Everything to Fight the Taliban

By Larisa Brown

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March 2022 Issue

Judith Vidal-Hall

Along the Smugglers’ Road

The Naked Don’t Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees

By Matthieu Aikins

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November 2021 Issue

Bijan Omrani

Lion of Peshawar

Afghan Napoleon: The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud

By Sandy Gall

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June 2019 Issue

Bijan Omrani

Rhinos of War

The Snow Leopard Project and Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation

By Alex Dehgan

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April 2000 Issue

John Simpson

A Bit Strict on Women

Taliban: Islam, Oil, and the New Great Game in Central Asia

By Ahmed Rashid

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August 2018 Issue

Bijan Omrani

Great Game Changer

Afghanistan in the Age of Empires

By Farrukh Husain

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February 2018 Issue

Michael Burleigh

Lethal Intelligence

Directorate S: The CIA and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001–2016

By Steve Coll

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September 2017 Issue

Owen Bennett-Jones

Losing Battle

Unwinnable: Britain’s War in Afghanistan 2001–2014

By Theo Farrell

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July 2017 Issue

Adrian Weale

Road to Abbottabad

The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight

By Cathy Scott-Clark & Adrian Levy

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February 2017 Issue

Bijan Omrani

Kilt for Hire

The Tartan Turban: In Search of Alexander Gardner

By John Keay

December 2016 Issue

Bijan Omrani

From Timur to the Taliban

The Pearl of Khorasan: A History of Herat

By C P W Gammell

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December 1987 Issue

William Hamilton-Dalrymple

To Boldly Go

Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers

By Nick Danziger

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May 2015 Issue

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

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March 2003 Issue

Matthew Leeming

Off Our Heads

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August 2003 Issue

William Reeve

Love and Literature in Afghanistan

The Bookseller of Kabul

By Asne Seierstad, Ingrid Christophersen (trans)

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September 2003 Issue

William Reeve

Meddling with the Mujahedin

The Storyteller's Daughter: Return to a Lost Homeland

By Saira Shah

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April 2015 Issue

Michael Burleigh

Grease My Palm

Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security

By Sarah Chayes

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May 2004 Issue

Justin Marozzi

Title Chasing

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

By Ben Macintyre

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July 2004 Issue

Matthew Leeming

Culture Clash

Kandahar Cockney: A Tale of Two Worlds

By James Fergusson

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July 2004 Issue

Justin Marozzi

Land of Unreason

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