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Afghanistan: a Modern History.(Book Review)
By Angelo Rasanayagam published by IB TAURIS
ISBN 1 86064 846 0 Price 24.50 [pounds sterling] hardback
Since 11 September 2001, Afghanistan has dominated the news, as it did for a long time during the Soviet occupation two decades ago, and long before, when, in the 19th and early 20th century, its mountain ranges formed the backdrop to the Great Game. In the western imagination it is one of the most romantic, as well as harsh, beautiful and dangerous places on earth. Squeezed as it is between four empires--Russia, China, India and Persia--its tortured history provides and extraordinary glimpse into the patterns of world movements. Today Afghanistan sits at the pivotal point of a region ...
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