Loyn, David. <br/><br/>
In Afghanistan :  two hundred years of British, Russian and American occupation / 
David Loyn. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York, NY :  Palgrave Macmillan,  2009. 
 - xxi, 266 p. :  maps ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>First encounters and the first Anglo-Afghan War, 1808-1842. Wild and strange ; A war of robbery ; Retreat -- Russian moves and the second Anglo-Afghan War, 1842-1880. The Great Game ; "Afghanistan as a whole could no longer exist" -- Making the frontier : the third Anglo-Afghan War and Afghan reform, 1880-1933. The Oasis War and the Durand Line ; "Tribes generally are rising" ; Bolt from the blue -- Revolution and the Soviet invasion, 1973-1994. "Muslim reactionaries" ; Charlie Horse ; "Fighting to the last Afghan" -- The Taliban and the U.S.-led invasion, 1994-2008. Virtue and vice ; Sons of dust ; The cheaper man. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0230614035 9780230614031 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008051653 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Military occupation--History.<br/>British--History.--Afghanistan<br/>Russians--History.--Afghanistan<br/>Americans--History.--Afghanistan
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Afghanistan--History.<br/>Afghanistan--History, Military.<br/>Afghanistan--Strategic aspects.<br/>Afghanistan--Politics and government.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS361  / .L698 2009