Books That Could Have Saved Lives In Helmand - If Read

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The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
1.  The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia by Peter Hopkirk
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  "A brilliant summary of previous errors and misunderstandings in Afghanistan - lately forgotten and now being repeated."
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The Malakand Field Force
2.  The Malakand Field Force by Winston S. Churchill
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  "An informed observer's first hand account of the realities of war in Afghanistan."
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The River War
3.  The River War by Winston S. Churchill
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  "The same observer's balanced reflections on another war against Islamic fundamentalists in which he took part, this one in the Sudan."
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The Campaigns of Alexander (Classics)
4.  The Campaigns of Alexander (Classics) by Flavius Arrianus Xenophon / Arrian
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  "Even Alexander the Great had trouble in Afghanistan - but Mr Blair's Cabinet thought they could do better."
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The Art of War
5.  The Art of War by Sun Tzu
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  "Basic strategy."
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Flashman (The Flashman Papers)
6.  Flashman (The Flashman Papers) by George MacDonald Fraser
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  "A novel - but one with more knowledge of Afghanistan than any member of the British Cabinet that initiated the Helmand Campaign."
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The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan
7.  The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan by Ben Macintyre
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  "The misadventures of an adventurer from the West in Central Asia."
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