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Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban (1st Edition) by Stephen Tanner Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-306-81826-4 / 0306818264 ISBN-13: 978-0-306-81826-4 / 9780306818264 For over 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads for armies and has witnessed history-shaping clashes between civilizations: Greek, Arab, Mongol, and Tartar, and, in more recent times, British, Russian, and American. When U.S. troops entered Afghanistan |