Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad

Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad

by David B. Edwards (Author)

Synopsis

David B. Edwards traces the lives of three Afghan leaders - Nur Muhammad Taraki, Samiullah Safi and Qazi Amin Waqad - to explain how the promise of progress and prosperity that animated Afghanistan in the 1960s crumbled and became the present tragedy of discord, destruction and despair.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 376
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 27 Mar 2002

ISBN 10: 0520228618
ISBN 13: 9780520228610