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KABUL UNDER SIEGE IBD

MARKUS WIENER PUBLISHERS
10 / 2022
9781558761551
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Sinopsis

In January 1929, the reigning monarch of Afghanistan, Amir Aman Allah Khan, was driven from his capital by a former soldier turned outlaw. The uprising was a response to the rulerâÇÖs attempts to modernize the tribal culture of Afghanistan. Kabul, then as now, was of considerable symbolic importance, and its loss sounded the death knell to the kingâÇÖs power and his reforms, much as the defeat of the Soviet-backed government in 1993 spelled the end of Marxist power in Afghanistan as well as its efforts at reforming this unyieldingly tribal society.Until now, there has been no account of the nine-month rule of the outlaw-king, Habib Allah, nicknamed 'Son of the Watercarrier,' from inside the capital.áThis account of the occupiersâÇÖ extortion, confiscation, and the resulting hardships, as well as the actions of those who resisted, is a timely reminder of the drama being played out in Afghanistan today. This edition is also illustrated.

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32,09