Prologue : friends or foes -- Ch. 1. The way it was -- Ch. 2. Inside the Taliban -- Ch. 3. The beginning of the end -- Ch. 4. The moderate Taliban -- Ch. 5. The Taliban bloodied -- Ch. 6. The last days of the Taliban -- Ch. 7. After the Taliban -- Ch. 8. The hidden face of Pakistan's military -- Ch. 9. Ties that bind -- Epilogue : four years later.
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A gripping, intimately-observed history of Afghanistan from 1986 to the present--by the longest-serving Western journalist in the region--overturns our conventional and simplistic understandings.
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Presents a history of Afghanistan and its people, from the Soviet occupation to the present day.