 | The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia by Peter Hopkirk
Buy new: £7.31 / Used from: £4.67 A brilliant summary of previous errors and misunderstandings in Afghanistan - lately forgotten and now being repeated.
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 | The Malakand Field Force by Winston S. Churchill
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £6.49 An informed observer's first hand account of the realities of war in Afghanistan.
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 | The River War by Winston S. Churchill
Buy new: £12.75 / Used from: £12.11 The same observer's balanced reflections on another war against Islamic fundamentalists in which he took part, this one in the Sudan.
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 | The Campaigns of Alexander (Classics) by Flavius Arrianus Xenophon / Arrian
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.71 Even Alexander the Great had trouble in Afghanistan - but Mr Blair's Cabinet thought they could do better.
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 | The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Buy new: £3.00 / Used from: £3.40 Basic strategy.
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 | Flashman (The Flashman Papers) by George MacDonald Fraser
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A novel - but one with more knowledge of Afghanistan than any member of the British Cabinet that initiated the Helmand Campaign.
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 | The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan by Ben Macintyre
Buy new: £10.45 / Used from: £4.10 The misadventures of an adventurer from the West in Central Asia.
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