Silk Road Books & Photos

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Fox, John

Afghan Adventure

First Edition 1958, London The Adventurere's Club pp190 in dw. An account of the arrest of an Afghan who had been forcibly taking weapons from British forces in Baluchistan during British Rule.

112

Fullerton, John

Soviet Occupation of Occupation

205 pages paperback by British Journalist who wrote for the Daily Telegraph and the Far Eastern Economic Review. The author was based in Peshawar for two and a half years. Cover age faded internally good.

113

Gall, Sandy

Behind Rebel lines An Afghan Journal

Hardback first edition in dust wrapper. 1983

114

Gall, Sandy

Afghanistan Agony of a Nation

1988 Hardback in dustwrapper with Signed Photo of Gall. Bodley Head Publishers first edition.

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Gall, Sandy

News from the Front a Television Reporter’s life

Hardback in dust wrapper 1994. Gall describes his three trips in to Soviet occupied Afghanistan and Gall gives a fascinating eye witness account of the fall of Kabul to Massoud’s Mujahedin in April 1992. As new.

116

Gall, Sandy et al

A Passage to Nuristan: Exploring the mysterious Afghan Hinterland

A first hand account of extraordinary travel, it is a reminiscent of "Short Walk in the Hindu Kush". This book about Afghanistan is highly topical. Despite its recent upheavals, for most of the twentieth century Afghanistan was a sleepy, faraway place of little interest to outsiders. Nowhere was the romance and mystery attached to the country more dramatically expressed than in its Nuristan region (formerly Kafiristan - Land of Infidels). Here, the spectacular mountains and lush but inaccessible valleys have, for centuries, been home to one of the world's least known peoples. Isolated in their mountain villages, the Nuristanis were only converted to Islam at the end of the nineteenth century. "A Passage to Nuristan" is the story of three young westerners - a Briton, an American and a German - who in 1960 set out to penetrate a land that few westerners had set eyes on. Unable to rely on maps or information on what would confront them, they were guided step by precarious step into the unknown world previously immortalised by Kipling's "The Man Who Would be King". This is the contemporary record - now published for the first time - of an extraordinary journey. It will fascinate all who are interested in Afghanistan, Central Asia and travel. At the same time it captures the essence of a time and a place now gone forever. Hardback first edition in dust wrapper 2005 192 pages. Original SIGNED PHOTO of Author is present in the book.

117

Gannon, Kathy

The Economics of Competitive coexistence Afghanistan Between East and West

From Holy War to holy Terror: 18 years inside Afghanistan. Journalist highlights the links between Bin Laden and the Northern Alliance which invited the latter back to Afghanistan in 1995. The failure of the Taliban to appreciate the consequences of killing Najib who was under Un protection. The UN punishment of the Taliban by failing to supply aid and assistance to Afghanistan despite the ending of poppy cultivation under the Taliban. The perverse current situation with increase in Poppy production and restoration of UN assistance. The author also highlights the links between the resurgent Taliban and the ISI. Mint in hardback with dw. 1st edition 2005. 186 pages.

118

Gaury Gerald de and HVF Winstone

The Road to Kabul

Quarter Books London mint in dw an anthology of travelers’ accounts and works of others such as Kipling. Pages 233

119

Gauhari, Farooka

Searching for Saleem: An Afghan woman’s odyssey

Hardback in dust wrapper.267 pages 1996 first edition. Account of how the Saur revolution effected this family. The husband was a US educated airforce pilot who disappeared on the day of the coup. The author searched for her husband without success and did not even manage to
locate his body. The author fled to India and on to the US where she had studied in the 1970s and found refuge. A gripping tale of what life was like living under Afghan Communism and the Soviet occupation.

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Geoffroy-Schneiter, Berenice

Gandhara the Memory of Afghanistan

80 pages hardback 2001 first edition in dust wrapper by Assouline with colour plates and text.

£25