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The 4th Battalion, Parachute Regiment (4 PARA), is an Army Reserve unit of the British Army.Now recruiting across the United Kingdom originally the Battalion covered the North of England, with its headquarters located in Pudsey, West Yorkshire.
The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan is a 1996 non-fiction book translated from Russian 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 ...
Caravans, a novel by James A. Michener, was published in 1963.. The story is set in Afghanistan immediately following World War II. The protagonist, Mark Miller, is stationed in Kabul at the American embassy and is given the assignment of an investigation to find a young woman, Ellen Jasper, also from the United States, who has disappeared after her marriage to an Afghan national thirteen ...
The book describes Mortenson's transition from a registered nurse and mountain climber to a humanitarian committed to reducing poverty and elevating education for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Following the beginnings of his humanitarian efforts, Mortenson co-founded the Central Asia Institute (CAI), a non-profit group that has reported ...
The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden is a 2022 biography by American journalist Peter Bergen, chronicling the life of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.Drawing on newly declassified documents from the 2011 Abbottabad raid, interviews with bin Laden's associates, and U.S. government officials, Bergen studies bin Laden’s radicalization and its origins, his leadership of al-Qaeda, the ...
Fifty years ago, Elana and Michael Hohl served in Afghanistan with the Peace Corps. Elana has written a book about the experience.
The title of the book refers to the role of the protagonist, 11-year-old Parvana, who is forced by circumstances to be the breadwinner for her family during the Third Afghan Civil War. For her research, the author spent several months interviewing women and girls in refugee camps in Pakistan, and used these interviews as the basis of her ...
Before embarking on Outlaw Platoon. Parnell's coauthor, military historian John R. Bruning, embedded himself with a unit in Afghanistan in 2010 in preparation for writing the book for Parnell. [3] The book was discussed as part of the Commandant's Book Club at the United States Military Academy in 2013. [4]