Silk Road Books & Photos

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Baechtold, Claude

Afghanistan the Ultimate Visual Travel Guide Photographic Guide to Afghanistan

2006 Switzerland in original card covers colour plates throughout.

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Baker, Anne

Wings over Kabul the First Airlift

191 pages 1975 first edition ex library. In very good dust wrapper. Account of airlift of Western diplomats from Kabul who fled the revolution against King Amanullah in 1929.

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Banuazizi A and Weiner M

State Religion and Ethnic Politics Pakistan Iran and Afghanistan

390 pages paperback 1987. Pakistani reprint. Chapters on state building and social fragmentation in Afghanistan a Historical perspective-  by Sharani; Ethnic, regional and sectarian alignments in Afghanistan; prospects for state building in Afghanistan by Canfield; Changing role of Islam as a unifying force in Afghanistan by Naby. Other articles on Pakistan and Iran.

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Begg Moazzam

Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment by the United States at Guantanamo

Hardback first UK edition. As new in dustwrapper. 352 pages 2006. Begg was detained in Pakistan and forcibly taken to begram airbase where he could hear the screams of a woman who was being sexually assaulted and believed this to be his wife. The victim later became known as the “grey woman of Begram” and her identity remains in dispute to date.

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Bellew H.W.

The Races of Afghanistan: Being A brief account of the principal nations inhabiting that country

Lahore (1979) reprint, pp124 good in dw.

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Bellew H W

Afghanistan and the Afghans

Green Hardback cover. 230 ;pages 1979 Niaz Ahmed and Sons  Lahore. Account of Afghanistan History from the earliest times to the overthrow of Amir Sher Ali.

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Ben, James

Afghan Journey

Book Description: Jonathan Cape, London, 1935. Cloth. Book Condition: Very Good. 8 Photo Plates, Endpaper Maps (illustrator). First English Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inspired by a quiet afternoon of reading in Iowa, this American traveller tackles Afghanistan's uncertainties in the early 1930s. It has imploded since, but this observant author learned a good deal of its mysteries. Pages 285. A nice clean copy, with bright gilt lettering on a terra cotta cloth binding. No prior owner marks, and very clean inside. A good read about travel in a very different time. “I turned to the day’s newspapers…The grim grey formidable city, high in the mountains was being plundered by the usurper king, Bacha Saquo – bandit son of a water-carrier, who wore a talisman on his burly right arm that caused bullets to pass harmlessly through him, so he believed, as if he were a ghost. King Amanullah, by plane and Rolls Royce, had fled, leaving in smouldering embers his dreams of modenising the nation.
A tubercular general, Nadir Khan, was leading his flaming eyed Mohammedan fighters towards the city gates to make himself king. British India was peering down the Khyber Pass, and Red Russia glaring over the northern border from Turkestan, anxiously watching the mysterious, independent buffer state in revolt.”
A Persian Official's wife tells the Author in Iran not to go to Afghanistan since the Afghans would kill him for the gold ring on his finger. The Author is a guest of the Royal Government of Afghanistan and interviews King Nadir Shah as well as other members of the Royal Court. Nadir Shah had not re-opened girls’ schools closed since the fall of Amanullah but is interested in trade relations with the US. Later, the Author met a disgruntled Afghan man who told him “We want to read and write; we want our women like other women of the world. Nadir Khan can’t stop us; if he does someone will kill him” In 1935 Nadir Khan was assassinated leading to succession by Zahir Shah to the Afghan throne.

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Bosworth C.E.

The Later Ghaznavids:Splendour and Decay

The Dynasty in Afghanistan and N.Afghanistan from 1040-1186. Published by Edinburgh Univ Press 1977 pages 196 in protected dw. Very good condition.

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Bowen, John Charles Edward

Plain Tales of the Afghan Border

Hardback in dw with mint condition. 1982 a compilation  account of Pashtun stories. Pages 95, First Edition London. Springwood Books.

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Broadfoot William

Reports on parts of the Ghilzai country and on some of the tribes in the neighbourhood of Ghazni

Royal Geographical Society Supplementary papers Vol 1 pp341-400, 4 text illustrations, folding coloured topographic map. Tall 8vo/24.5cm.Original blue wrappers, light wear, small chip tail of spine, otherwise very good. The editor Major William Broadfoot  was presumably a relative in possession of Lieutenant Broadfoot’s original journal and in his introductory note gave an overview of the lieutenant’s role in the Afghan War, his itinerary and his death in Nov 1840 charging an Afghan Cavalry Unit with four other Officers when their Native Cavalry refused to charge. Entire issue. Wilber(1968 edition)
669.

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