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Farivar, Masood

Confessions of a Mullah Warrior

Hardback US first Edition 2009 with dust wrapper. Unique first hand account by a Mujahedin warrior who was a US citizen about his fight against the Soviets and thereafter his career in Afghanistan as a journalist post 2001.

102

Fazal-ur Rehman and Surosh Irfani

Afghanistan Looking to the Future

Seminar Report from the Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad held in collaboration with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation on 4-5 December 1990. The Seminar Foccussed on four major areass of the Afghan conflict: The issue of a political settlement, the repatriation of Afghan refugees, rehabilitation and reconstruction and the future shape of Afghanistan. First Edition.PP161 Paperback.

103

Fergusson James

Kandahar Cockney: A Tale of Two Worlds

2004 First Edition, in dustwrapper hardback, account of the life of an Afghan asylum seeker who comes to the UK and meets the author whom he had served as a guide in Afghanistan. The author helps his Afghan friend navigate the asylum process and describes the lives of Afghan asylum seekers in the UK.

104

Ferrier J P

History of the Afghans

Pictorial Hardback cover by Sang Meel Publication Lahore pp491. 2002 An interesting French history of the origin of the Afghans and the First Anglo Afghan War by Ferrier who was a contemporary traveller of the period.

105

Fletcher, Arnold

Afghanistan Highway of Conquest

Fletcher traces the history of the Afghan nation from irs beginning in 1747 to the present. His primary focus is on the political history – more specifically on the internal development of Afghanistan and hot it was influenced by such outsided forces as British India and Czarist Russia. Fletcher presents a sympathetic account of Afghan resistance during the Anglo Afghan wars and illustrates well how high handed British officials could behave. For example he gives the example of an incident where a Political Officer orders the wiping out of a village community because the official believed that the inhabitants had looked at him with disrespect. First edition 1965 in dw with ex libris label of Michael Gillett formerly a British Ambassador to Afghanistan as well as a writer on Afghanistan.

106

Forbes Rossita

Forbidden Road from Kabul to Samarkand

1937 289 pages first US edition. Hardback.

107

Franck, Peter G

The Economics of Competitive coexistence Afghanistan Between East and West

National Planning Association, one map and 85 pages in original card wrappers. Good
condition.

108

Fraser James B

An Historical and Descriptive Account of Persia, including a description of Afghanistan and Belochistan

Book Description: from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: with a detailed view of its Resources, Government, Population, Natural History, and the Character of its Inhabitants, particularly of the wandering tribes; including a description of Afghanistan and Beloochistan. 2nd ed. 472pp, 8 plates & fldg. map & 5 ills. in text 1834. Needs rebinding in original leather binding. else Good.

109

Fredericks Pierce G

Sepoy and the Cossack

WH Allen 1973 279 pages. Hardback in dustwrapper.

110

Fox E

Travels in Afghanistan 1937-38

It was 1937 and few places on Earth were more remote than Afghanistan. Into this hermit kingdom went Ernest Fox. Technically searching for oil and gemstones for the Afghan king, the American engineer discovered a countryside unchanged since the days of Marco Polo.
For a year Fox rode a series of local horses through the mountains, valleys, and deserts of this forbidden realm, visiting such fabled places as the medieval city of Herat, the towering Hindu Kush mountains, and the legendary Khyber Pass.
The equestrian engineer thus spent an exciting time on his sojourn, exploring a country which had been a highway for history since the days of Alexander the Great. “Travels in Afghanistan” was compiled from the field notes, maps and sketches Fox brought back from his 2,000 mile horse back adventure.
A lively and adventure-filled book, it provides a geographical and historical sketch of Afghanistan, her various people, and a way of life that was destroyed in the late 20th century. Amply illustrated, it remains a timeless classic. Hardback first edition in dustwrapper 1943