Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan

By Tamim Ansary

Book Overview

By the author of Destiny Disrupted: an enlightening, accessible history of modern Afghanistan from the Afghan point of view, showing how Great Power conflicts have interrupted its ongoing, internal struggle to take form as a nation

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610393198
• ISBN13: 9781610393195
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Most engaging nonfiction I've ever read

I'm not normally a big history person, but I had to read this for a college class and it's stuck with me ever since. It's really engaging, giving life to historical figures and getting you wholeheartedly invested in their fates. And it's uniquely enlightening, coming from an Afghan perspective and telling you not just what happened, not just why it happened, but also why it matters. It's a few years old now, but I still wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone with even a passing interest in Afghanistan or the current events going on there.