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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)

Timothy Nunan, Humanitarian Invasion: Global Development in Cold War Afghanistan (Cambridge, 2016)

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