TY  - BOOK
AU  - TANNER Stephen
TI  - Afghanistan: a military history from Alexander the Great to the war against the Taliban 
SN  - 9780306818264 (pbk.) :
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Da Capo Press
KW  - AFGHANISTAN
KW  - MILITARY HISTORY
N2  - Covers 2,500 years of history during which Afghansitan has been the target of external interventions and all of which have been resisted, earniing the country the sobriquet "graveyard of empires". This revised edition brings events up to date with the terrorist attacks in Mumbai India of November 2008
ER  -