American Soldier: Stories of Special Forces from Grenada to Afghanistan (Adrenaline Series)
During the past two decades, the aims and the nature of war have changed completely. Today, American soldiers on the ground typically operate in small, self-contained units with well-defined goals that require a high degree of training and risk. This book offers a look at the realities of that warfare, and the lives and deaths of the soldiers who fight it. American Soldier draws upon the extensive literature that has emerged in recent years describing episodes of warfare in places ranging from Somalia, Haiti, and Colombia to Afghanistan and Iraq. Mark Bowden in Black Hawk Down gives a gripping blow-by-blow account of action on the ground in Somalia while Martin Stanton, an officer in the first U.S. army unit to arrive, describes the army’s "squalid and puzzling little failure" in Somalia on Five Dollars a Day. CIA agent Robert Baer tells of his twenty-plus years in counter-terrorist espionage in the Middle East in See No Evil, Peter Maas reports from Bosnia on the insanity of modern war in Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War, and Air Force pilot Scott O’Grady describes the terror of being shot down in Bosnia

Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan
"The accumulation of disorder in Pakistan is such that it could well be the next Yugoslavia," writes New Yorker correspondent Weaver (Portrait of Egypt: A Journey Through the World of Militant Islam). She portrays a country mired in chaos and decay, speculating on whether Musharraf can win his war...

Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan
Investigative reporter Griffin, news editor for the Index on Censorship, approaches recent Afghan history through local and international news reports in an effort to understand who the Taliban are and how they see their role in Afghanistan and in the Islamic world. And, because Afghanistan has long...

Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
This is the single best book available on the Taliban, the fundamentalist Islamic regime in Afghanistan responsible for harboring the terrorist Osama bin Laden. Ahmed Rashid is a Pakistani journalist who has spent most of his career reporting on the region--he has personally met and interviewed many...

The Lion's Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan
Two weeks after the terrorist attacks of September 11, New York correspondent and best-selling author Jon Lee Anderson became one of the first Western journalists to get into Afghanistan. Anderson had reported on the mujahideen's war against the communist-backed government in Kabul more than a...

Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism
New York Times Book Review "Great many details of value and interest . . ."