Silk Road Books & Photos

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Lal, Mohan

Travels in the Punjab, Afghanistan and Turkistan to Balk Bokhara and Herat

1979 reprint Al Biruni publishers Lahore. Hardback in dustwrapper.

202

Latifa

My Forbidden Face Growing up under the Taliban A Young Woman’s story

Hardback in dw very good  condition . Talk Miramax Books first edition 2001.

203

Le Fevre, Georges

An Eastern Odyssey: the Third Expedition of Haardt and Audouin-Dubreuil

Account of the Citroen expedition through Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan during the 1930s. 1935 Hardback green cloth.

204

Levi Peter

Light Garden of the Angel King

Collins 1972 travel with Levi and Bruce Chatwin exploring Afghanistan’s cultural heritage. In dust wrapper, hardback very good.

205

Lessing Doris

The Wind Blows Away our Words

Account of Lessing’s trip to Pakistan during the 1980s and she speaks to women to learn about how the invasion and occupation of their country has effected them. She also details the role that women play against the occupation. Paperback 1987 Picador.

206

Lohbeck Kurt

Holy War Unholy Victory, eyewitness to the CIA’s secret war in Afghanistan

Regenery Gateway publishers hardback in dustwrapper. 306 pages 1993. A US journalist of German descent travels with the Mujahedin in Soviet occupied Afghanistan. He witnesses the preferential distribution of US arms to the Hisb E Islami Gulbudin Hekmetyar group. The author also meets an old German man in Afghanistan who had served in Afghanistan during the Second World War and liked the Afghans because they had refused British demands to expel the Germans into India during World War 2. The author buys a medallion produced by the old Nazis in Afghanistan depicting Hitler.

207

Loseby Richard

Blue is the colour of Heaven a journey into Afghanistan

Paperback account of journey through Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan during the Soviet Occupation. The author was inspired to travel to Afghanistan by encounters with Afghan camel drivers in Australia as a child. 2004 Indian edition.

208

Macintyre, Ben

Josiah the Great

Sub title the true story of the man who would be king. A biographical account of Josiah Harlan who journeyed to Afghanistan in the Nineteenth Century. Hardback first English edition. Harper Collins.

209

Mackey, C and Miller, G

The Interrogators Inside the Secret War Against Al Qaeda

484 pages account of interrogations and wily schemes used by interrogators to gain confessions/information from detainees in Afghanistan. In dw hardback 1st edition Little Brown NY. 2004.

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Maclean Rory

Magic Bus on the Hippie trail from Istanbul to India

Hardback in dust wrapper first edition 2006 Viking Press. The author enters Afghanistan via Heart and goes by plane to Kabul but the plane touches down in Bagram Airport and the author enjoys US military hospitality before going on to Kabul and up the Khyber.