Silk Road Books & Photos

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Shams Abdul Halim

In Cold Blood The Communist Conquest of Afghanistan

102 pages published in USA by Western Island Publishers 1987 paperback mint condition. The author worked as an Afghan Diplomat to Iran, headed Diplomatic delegations to the USSR and met on numerous occasions with Brezhnev. However, in Dec 1979 after the Soviet Invasion Shams was imprisoned as a CIA spy and sentenced to death. Shams was rescued by the Mujahedin in a daring operation.

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Shakur, M.A.

A Dash Through the Heart of Afghanistan

Personal narrative of an Archaeological Tour with the Indian Cultural Mission Curator Peshawar Museum. 1947 Hardback 127 PAGES with folding map. Very good condition.

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Sheikh, Fazal

The Victor Weeps Afghanistan

In dustwrapper hardback first edition ex library. Scalo publishers Zurich Black and white plates. Book details the personal lives of Afghan refugees in Pakistan.

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Shuja, Shah

Wakayat Shah Shuja

Memoirs of Shah Shuja in Dari. Paperback published in Kabul Afghanistan. Shuja was the grandson of Ahmed Shah Durrani and ruled Afghanistan as King until 1809 when he met the British Mission headed by Elphinstone.

315

Singer, Andre

Lords of the Khyber Story of the North West Frontier

234 pages Faber and Faber 1984. First Edition in dust wrapper mint.

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Singh, Ganda

Ahmed Shah Durrani

First Indian Edition published in Bombay 1959. The book covers the early life of Ahmed Shah Durrani, his eight invasions of India with the conquests of Lahore, Kashmir, Punjab, Delhi Affairs, struggle with the Maharatas and the campaigns against Balkh, Bokhara and Khurasan. The book also deals with the rebellion of Naseer  Khan and the battle of Panipat. A sound historical book on Ahmed Shah Durrani written by an Indian Scholar who consulted original Persian manuscripts to write this book. Read more

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Sikorski Radek

Dust of the Saints

UK First Edition 1989 with dust wrapper in very good condition 274 pages
Herat is famous as Afghanistan's home of Sufism. Abdullah Ansari Afghanistan's famous Sufi is buried here amongst others. Many of these monuments received damage during the Soviet occupation and the author sets out to find out about what happened to the large medieval food cauldron in the jamiyeh Mosque, the Minarets of the Mussalla of Herat and the Sufi Shrines.
Sikorski provides interesting insights into the Herat uprising of 1979:
"An old woman , a Turkoman survivor from the Bolshevik assault on Bokhara in 1920, was going round the villages talking to other women and young brides. She told the women what a massacre the assault on Bokhara had been and showed them the scar on her breast made by a Russian sword. She told them that when Bokhara was taken all the women were raped and that, if they did not make their men fight the communists, they would be dishonoured too. After this, it was no use trying to reason with the men ( to delay the uprising in Herat to a pre-planned date). The women taunted them and their blood boiled. The local leaders in Herat decided to rise up ... forty-one days before the appointed date".

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Spain, James W.

THE WAY OF THE PATHANS

190pp. 14 photographs.Fine in dw. OUP Pakistan 1972. The author travels throughout Northern Pakistan and on to Kabuil where he meets students of the Khushal Khan Khattak Academy and speaks to President Daoud about the Pashtunistan policy.

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Spain, James W

Pathans of the latter day

In the 1990s the author travels back to Afghanistan and is robbed of his vehicle by bandits on the road near Jalalabad. Pages 176 July 1996 OUP Pakistan. Hardback in dust wrapper.

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Stark, Freya

Minaret of Djam

Hardback in very good condition with dw. Pages 99 account of the famous travellers trip by Landrover from Kabul to the Minaret of Djam and onto Herat. The author comes across various Ribats and graves alleged to be from the Companions of the Prophet Muhammed (PBUH). John Murray London.