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The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan is a 1996 non-fiction book translated and edited by American military scholar and author Lester W. Grau. The book is translated from a study initially published by the Frunze Military Academy in 1991 titled "Combat Actions of Soviet Forces in the Republic of Afghanistan" and ...
The book was commissioned by the United States Marine Corps Studies and Analysis Division to complement Grau's previous book, "The Bear Went Over the Mountain." Jalali and Grau had planned travel into Afghanistan to interview Mujahideen fighters in late 1996, but were forced to remain in Pakistan when a Taliban offensive campaign started to seize major portions of Afghanistan, eventually ...
When the Birds Fly South. Categories: Novels by country of setting. Novels set in Asia by country. Afghanistan in fiction. Books about Afghanistan. Works set in Afghanistan.
978-0-06-206639-8. Outlaw Platoon is a 2012 war story memoir written by Captain Sean Parnell and author John R. Bruning. The book details Parnell's 2006–2007 experiences as an infantry platoon leader during the War in Afghanistan. After receiving his commission through the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps program at Duquesne University ...
2021 Hardcover book jacket. The American War in Afghanistan: A History is a nonfiction historical account of the United States war in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2020. It was written by Carter Malkasian and published in 2021 by Oxford University Press. [1][2][3][4][5] In 2022 the author received the Lionel Gelber Prize for this book.
National Museum of Afghanistan. The National Museum of Afghanistan (Dari: موزیم ملی افغانستان, Mūzīyam-e mellī-ye Afghānestān; Pashto: د افغانستان ملی موزیم, Də Afghānistān Millī Mūzīyəm) is a two-story building located across the street from the Darul Aman Palace in the Darulaman area of Kabul ...
The Afghan Campaign is a historical novel by the American writer Steven Pressfield.It was first published in 2006 by Doubleday. [1] It is the story of Alexander the Great's invasion of the Afghan kingdoms (the Afghanistan of today) in 330 BC through the eyes of Matthias (Μαντίθεος in Greek), a young soldier from Macedonia, who narrates the adventures of the Macedonian army against the ...
Stephen Barrett Tanner is an American author currently residing in Sierra Madre, California. He served with US special forces in Italy in World War II and following his graduation from Yale University in the US Department of State [1] (1949–1969). As a military historian and freelance writer, Tanner has produced the following books: Refuge ...