附註:Originally published: 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Crossroads of empires -- Alexander the Great -- Prize of conquest -- Mongols -- Rise of Afghanistan -- Great game -- Triumph of the tribes -- Victorian vengeance -- Soviets -- Mujahideen -- Rise of the Taliban -- Americans.
摘要:A complete military history of Afghanistan traces more than 2,500 years of conflict, from clashes against the Persians, Greeks, and British, through the defeat of the Soviet Union in the 1980s and the rise and fall of the Taliban.
