Publisher's Synopsis
Afghanistan is a captivating us of brilliant extremes - lovely beauty, grinding poverty, alpine glaciers, violent cruelty, copious tea, barren deserts, and heat hospitality. Living as they do alongside the historic Silk Road, the Afghan human beings and their wealthy cultures were indelibly fashioned through centuries of trade, invasion, and conflict.
Afghanistan has been called "the graveyard of empires" for its uncanny ability to withstand overseas occupation. Afghans have correctly seen off the invading armies of Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, the British empire, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Yet Afghanistan stays one of the poorest and maximum violent international locations withinside the world - and that changed earlier than the Taliban regained management of us in 2021. But there are glimmers of progress. And there are motives for hope.
This brief ebook peels return the veil and give a quick glimpse into the heart-warming, gut-wrenching, awe-inspiring records of Afghanistan - a glimpse that you may examine in approximately an hour.
