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191

Khan, Sultan Mahomed

The Life of Abdur Rahman  Amir of Afghanistan

1900 First UK Edition in red cloth hardback binding with all original plates and two folding maps. Some wear to top of spine. Ex library with usual marks. John Murray. Nice good tight clean copy.

192

Khan, Sultan Mahomed

The Life of Abdur Rahman Amir of Afghanistan

1900 First Edition, 2 vols, one has library stamps in, hardback in beige hard cloth with red and white leaf like motifs over the front cover. In very good condition with folding map.

193

Khan, Munawwar

Anglo Afghan Relations 1798-1878 A Chapter in the Great Game

DW in hardback 280 pages University Book Agency Khyber Bazar Peshawar. Chairman Peshawar Univ History Dept 1964.

194

Klass Rosanne

The Great Game Revisited

Paperback with articles by different authors on the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Freedom House publication. One of the most valuable aspects of ''Afghanistan, the Great Game Revisited'' is the historical perspective it provides and the continuity it establishes between the aims of czarist statesmen, casting their eyes toward the Indian Ocean, and those of their Soviet successors. The greater part of the book, however, is devoted to the recent past and to current developments 519 pages 1988.

195

Klass Rosanne

Land of the High Flags

In dust wrapper hardback first edition. Account of US female teachers one year residence in 1960s Afghanistan teaching at a teenage boy’s school.

196

Knobloch, Edgar

Archaeology of Afghanistan

Tempus publishers 2002 192 pages.

197

Kohzad, Ahmad Ali

In the highlights of Modern Afghanistan

The original text of this book was published in Persian in 1952.Chapters translated from Dari into English include the following: Cooperation and rivalry of Sadozais and the Barekzais, Afghan governors in Kashmir(The battle of Vazir Fateh Khan against Ata Mohammad Khan Bamizai), The siege of Ghazni:In what way the famous revolt at Kabul changed in a great national rising; the evacuation of Kabul: The leaving of Elphinstone’s force for Jalalabad; Sardar Mohammad Akbar Khan Ghazi and his treatment with the prisoners.; the Jalalabad affair: assassination of Shah Shuja; First years of the reign of Amir Dost Mohammed Khan:struggle of Barekzai brothers.

198

Kohzad Ahmed Ali

Men and Events in 18th and 19th Century Afghanistan

Men and Events through 18 the and 19th Century Afghanistan, Hardback new and unused condition.Rare volume not available on www.abe.com or amazon market place, nor likely to be available on such sites in the future. Published by Afghan book publisher and book dealer 1972, Kabul Afghanistan. This is a hardback first edition by te famous AFGHAN HISTORIAN Ahmed Ali Kohzad. This is a collection of 46 English language Articles originally written in Dari and published in book form some years ago, giving short sketches of important events in Afghan history. They also give biographies of some outstanding personalities who had played leading roles on the scene of those historical events. 185 PAGES ILLUSTRATED WITH 13 PORTRAITS OF FAMOUS AFGHANS. Contents of 46 Chapters: Ahmed Shah and Tamur Shah, Zaman Shah and a policy of Indian Penetration, Mistake of Zaman Shah Success and Failures of Zaman Shah, In the fort of Ashik the Shinwari Humayun, The Prince Qaisar, Battles Between Shah Mahmud and Shah Shuja, Wazir Fateh Khan Mukhtarudowallah, Shair Mohamed Khan (The Bamizai and Shah Shuja), Atta Mohammed Khan Bamizai, Sirdar Mohamed Azeem Khan, Two Kings in One Palace Two Kings in one City, Habibulllah Khan (The son and Riches of Sirdar Azeem Khan), The Saduzais in Herat (Shah Mahmud and Kamran in one corner of Afghanistan), Yar Mohamed Khan Alkozai,  Towards the delineation of the Frontier,  The English interest in Heart,  STRUGGLE OF 2 sIRDARS OF Kabul, Meeting of and clash of Ayub Shah and Purdil Khan at Bala Hisar,  Plan and Purpose oF Shair Dil Khan,  Scheme of 1242 AH Sirdar Kohind Dil Khan and the Kandahar Govt, Two Crowning Ceremonies (The barley and the Wheat Heads), The Forward Policy, The triparite Treaty,  Shuja, the Sikhs and English, How the gateway of Ghazni citadel was blown up, battle of spear and shield Second Nov of 1841 Instigator, hero, victor and the martyr,  Abandoning of Shairpore 6.1.42, Badia Bad, ISTALIF IN THE LEAPING FIRE, FATEH jUNG THE KING OF BALA HISAR, NAYUB Aminullah Khan Logari, Beginning of general uprising against British in Kandahar, Akhtar Khan Dawari Rise and Fall of Kandahari Sardars, Sirdar Sultan Ahmed Khan and the Herat Govt, Ten months siege of Herat , Revolt of Azam Khan governor of Kashmir and Action of H.M. Timur Shah against him, TIMUR Shah Durrani and the plan of Wazir Shah Wali Khan, Amir Shair Ali Khan struggles with his brothers, The results of Co-operation.

199

Kyoto University

Archaeological Survey of Kyoto University in Afghanistan 1970

23 pages of text 35 photos and diagrams. Contents first excavation at Tapa Skandar,
Skandar Inscription of the Uma Mahesvara Image.and  Photogrammetrical Survey. Very
Good in original card cover.

200

Lansford, Tom

A Bitter Harvest US Foreign Policy and Afghanistan

Pages 206, 2003 chapters include ethnic actors colonialism and a history of conflict, failure of the post colonial Afghan state, US policy at dawn of cold war, the turn to the USSR, 1979 the invasion and the Mujahideen, Taliban and post cold war US policy, Sept 11 and fall of the Taliban, conclusion the present and future US role. Hardback publication by a US academic.