Published
internationally in July 2003 as Kabul: The Bradt Mini Guide.
First published in Kabul in September 2002
as a pamphlet.
What’s new
Services
Guesthouses
Articles
|
Last updated May 1 2003 Here is just a list of some of the books read
by the authors of The Survival Guide to Kabul and recommended by friends. The
bookshop at the Intercontinental Hotel has an impressive stock. As do
bookshops on Chicken and Flower Street. Bookshops in Kabul stock recent books
on Afghanistan and out of date editions such as those by Nancy Hatch Dupree. The most recent bestseller and must read on
Afghanistan is: Ahmed Rashid – Taliban: The Story of the
Afghan Warlords (Pan Books, 2001) An essential handbook with a new edition due
out soon: Afghanistan – Essential Field Guides to
Humanitarian and Conflict Zones edited by Edward
Girardet and Jonathan Walker. Originally published in 1998 a revised edition
is due out in 2003. This is a handbook anyone visiting Afghanistan should not
be without. Look out on the streets of Kabul for: Nancy Hatch Dupree - An Historical Guide
to Afghanistan (1977) Nancy Hatch Dupree - An Historical Guide
to Kabul (1972) Other books worth reading include: Charles Allen - Soldier Sahibs: The Men
Who Made the North-West Frontier (Abacus, 2001) Artyom Borovik - The Hidden War: A Russian
Journalist’s Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan (Groove Press,
2001) Nick Danziger - Danzigers’s Travels:
Beyond Forbidden Frontiers (Flamingo, 1993) Jason Elliot - An Unexpected Light:
Travels in Afghanistan (Picador, 2000) Martin Ewans - Afghanistan, A Short
History of Its People and Politics (Perennial, 2002) John C. Griffiths - Afghanistan, A History
of Conflict (Andre Deutsch Ltd, 2001) Peter Hopkirk - The Great Game: On Secret
Service in High Asia (Oxford University Press, 2001) Peter Hopkirk - The Great Game: The
Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha America, 1994) Robert D Kaplan - Soldiers of God: With
the Mujahidin in Afghanistan (Houghton Mifflin Co, 1990) Christina Lamb - The Sewing Circles of
Heart: My Afghan Years (Harper Collins, 2002) Eric Newby - A Short Walk in the Hindu
Kush (Picador, 1981) Ted Rall - To Afghanistan and Back
(NBM Publishing Company, 2002) Ahmed Rashid - Jihad: The Rise of Militant
Islam in Central Asia (Yale University Press, 2002) Reuter’s Foreign Correspondents - Afghanistan:
Lifting the Veil (Prentice Hall, 2002) Barnett R. Rubin - The Fragmentation of
Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System
(Yale University Press, 2002) Barnett R. Rubin - The Search for peace in
Afghanistan: From Buffer State to Failed State (Yale University Press,
1995) John Simpson - News From No Man’s Land:
Reporting the World (Macmillan, 2002) Stephen Tanner - Afghanistan, A Military
History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban (Da Capo
Press, 2002) Zoya et al - Zoya’s Story: A Woman’s
Struggle for Freedom in Afghanistan (Review, 2003) For a critical analysis of the work of NGOs
worldwide read David Rieff’s A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in
Crisis (Vintage, 2002) Books on Afghanistan from Amazon (UK) and Amazon (USA). |
||||||||
|
كابل،
افغانستان |
The Survival Guide to Kabul©
|