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Afghanistan : a military history from Alexander the Great to the fall of the Taliban / Stephen Tanner.
LIBRA DS356 .T36 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tanner, Stephen, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History, Military.
- Afghanistan--History, Military.
- Afghanistan.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 351 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Da Capo Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- An acclaimed historian presents the only complete military history of Afghanistan--from Alexander the Great's conquest of Afghanistan on his way from Persia to India to the Russian invasion and their subsequent defeat in the 1980s to current engagements with military forces in the war against terrorism. 40 photos. 5 maps.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-339) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0306811642 :
- OCLC:
- 50137438
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