The Afghanistan Wars

This is an authoritative account of the Afghanistan Wars which since the Soviet-Afghan conflict (1979-1989) in successive waves devastated much of the country amd culminated in the onging War in Afghanistan that was started by the invasion of the country by the United States in 2001. This new edition has been updated throughout in the light of the latest research and features a new final chapter which examines post-Taliban Afghanistan, bringing the story up to the present day.