Silk Road Books & Photos

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Wheeler S E

The Ameer Abdur Rahman

1895 Hardback by Frederick Warne and Co. New York 249 pages biography of the Iron Amir. Three maps, genealogical table and four plates.

362

Whitteridge Gordon

Charles Masson of Afghanistan Explorer, Archaeologist, Numismatist and intelligence agent

Hardback in dw in good- very good condition dw slightly rubbed. Biography of Masson, which sets out amongst other things to re-appraise Masson’s contribution to Central Asian Antiquities.

363

Wilber , Donald N

Annotated Bibliography of Afghanistan

Human relations area file New Haven 1956. Classi Bibliography of Afghanistan. V.Good in original card cover.

364

Wild, Roland

Amanullah Ex King of Afghanistan

Hurst and Blackett Ltd London First Edition 1932. 26 photos b and w including one of Amanullah in Tennis kit. 288PP Hardback some foxing to pages.  An account of the rule of King Amanullah of Afghanistan.

365

Wild, Roland

Amanullah Ex King of Afghanistan

First Edition Al Nisa Publishers Quetta Pakistan 1979. 26 photos b and w including one of Amanullah in Tennis kit. Hadback in Dust wrapper.  An account of the rule of King Amanullah of Afghanistan.

366

Willemsen Roger

An Afghan Journey

2007 hardback in dust wrapper. 220 pages with colour photos.

367

Wilson J Christy

One Hundred Afghan Persian Proverbs

Hardback in dw 1963 Van Nostrand. Pages 262 Ex Roehampton Institute Library. One map and photos of Afghan Univ students, female Nomad, female Turkoman carpet weavers and teenage girl scouts. Hardback in dw, ex library of Digby Stuart College Roehampton. Illustrated with black and white photos.

368

Waller John H

The Road to British Disaster in the First Afghan War

Interlit Foundation 59 pages 2004.

£15

369

Wilson, Andrew

 North From Kabul

8vo George Allen & Unwin 1961.  1st edition.  Colour frontispiece, 32 photographs and sketch map on endpapers.  Blue cloth.  199pp.
Afghanistan in the early '60s. The author was interested in the proposed Soviet all-weather road from the Oxus to Kabul and the impact of Soviet investment on Afghanistan in general so he travelled  up to the border to report on the progress the Russians were making. The author tried to pass himself of as a Russian and hitched lifts with Afghan truck drivers. He met with icy receptions from Afghans at Chai Khanas since many of the ethnic groups in Northern Afghanistan include Central Asian people who fled massacres in Soviet Central Asia during the 1920s.  Very good clean copy.

370

Yousaf Mohammad

Silent Soldier the man behind the Afghan Jehad

General Akhtar, a Pakistani Pashtun,  co-ordinated Pakistani efforts to support militarily the Mujahideen resistance in Afghanistan. Akhtar died in 1988 killed with General Zia Ul Haq in a still unexplained explosion aboard their C-130 military transport plane. Yousaf was a Brigadier serving under Akhtar and has written this account to publiicise Akhtar’s role in the defeat of the USSR. Pages 106.