In Afghanistan: Two Hundred Years of British, Russian and American Occupation

By David Loyn

An award-winning BBC foreign correspondent chronicles the military conflicts of Afghanistan throughout the past two centuries, evaluating the roles of misunderstanding and broken agreements as well as the author's perspectives on how foreign occupiers underestimated Afghani capabilities.

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Lincoln's Political Generals

By David Work

In an examination of Lincoln's policy of appointing political generals to build a national coalition to fight and win the Civil War, Work follows the careers of sixteen generals through the war. He demonstrates convincingly that these generals' efforts significantly aided the Union war effort in their capacity as administrators, political supporters, recruiters and organizers of troops, and advocates of the Union cause among key political and ethnic constituencies.

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