Games without rules the often-interrupted history of Afghanistan
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- ISBN: 9781470846343 (electronic audio bk.)
- ISBN: 1470846349 (electronic audio bk.)
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electronic resource
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1 online resource (1 sound file) : digital. - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., p2012.
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Participant or Performer Note: | Read by the author. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on hard copy version record. |
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Genre: | Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. History. Military history. |
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Summary:
Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real, but it sits atop an older struggle between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan--a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam. Now, Tamim Ansary draws on his Afghan background, Muslim roots, and Western and Afghan sources to explain history from the inside out and illuminate the long, internal struggle that the outside world has never fully understood.