Hi all,

Here's a list of books for those interested in learning more about the history of Afghanistan!

• Afghanistan’s Islam: From Conversion to the Taliban, ed. Nile Green (UC Press, 2016

• Michael Barry, Kabul’s Long Shadows: Historical Perspectives available online at: https://dataspace.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp01vd66vz93t

• Sarah Chayes, The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban (Penguin, 2007)

• Thomas Hegghammer, The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad (Cambridge UP, 2020)

• Artemy Kalinovsky, A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal From Afghanistan (Harvard UP, 2011)

• Carter Malkasian, The American War in Afghanistan: A History (Oxford UP, 2021)

• Jennifer Murtazashvili, Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan (Cambridge University Press, 2016)

• Abdul Salam Zaeef, My Life With the Taliban (Hurst, 2011)

And as always thanks to Tim Nunan for providing these!