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Afghanistan : are the British counternarcotics efforts going wobbly?... by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources

Subjects: “…Drug control Afghanistan.…”
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Endgame for the West in Afghanistan? : explaining the decline in support for the war in Afghanistan in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, France and Germany by Miller, Charles A. (Charles Arthur), 1980-

“…Explaining the decline in support for the war in Afghanistan in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, France and Germany.…”
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Strategies of British India : Britain, Iran, and Afghanistan, 1798-1850 by Yapp, Malcolm

Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia : pioneer of British colonial rule by Hanifi, Shah Mahmoud

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Global citizenship by Available Light Productions

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Refugee kids by Big Heart Media

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School matters. 1, Dealing with race

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Britain in the Middle East, 1619-1971 by Harrison, Robert T.

Contents: “…The 'Great Game' and Afghanistan, 1838-1842 -- 6. The 'Eastern Question' and the Crimean War and its Causes, 1838-1856 -- 7. …”
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Waging war in Waziristan : the British struggle in the land of Bin Laden, 1849-1947 by Roe, Andrew M.

The decline and fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 1st Vintage Books ed. by Brendon, Piers

Contents: “…The world that turned upside down : the American Revolution and the slave trade -- An English barrack in the Oriental seas : Britannia's Indian empire -- Exempt from the disaster of caste : Australia, Canada and New Zealand -- To stop is dangerous, to recede, ruin : the Far East and Afghanistan -- Sacred wrath : Irish famine and Indian mutiny -- Spread the peaceful gospel, with the maxim gun : towards conquest in Africa -- A magnificent empire under the British flag : Cape to Cairo -- Barbarian thundering at the frontiers : the Boer War and the Indian Raj -- The empire, right or wrong : Flanders, Iraq, Gallipoli and Vimy Ridge -- Aflame with the hope of liberation : Ireland and the Middle East -- Englishmen like posing as gods : west and east -- White mates black in a very few moves : Kenya and the Sudan -- Spinning the destiny of India : the route to independence -- That is the end of the British empire : Singapore and Burma -- The aim of labour is to save the empire : Ceylon and Malaya -- A golden bowl full of scorpions : the Holy Land -- The destruction of national will : Suez invasion and Aden evacuation -- Renascent Africa : the Gold Coast of Africa and Nigeria -- Uhuru, freedom : Kenya and the Mau Mau -- Kith and kin : Rhodesia and the Central African Federation -- Rocks and islands : the West Indies and Cyprus -- All our pomp of yesterday : the Falklands and Hong Kong.…”

Ruling the world : freedom, civilisation and liberalism in the nineteenth-century British Empire by Lester, Alan, Boehme, Kate, Mitchell, Peter, 1982-

A peace to end all peace : the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of the modern Middle East 1st Owl Books ed. by Fromkin, David

Contents: “…The last days of old Europe -- The legacy of the great game in Asia -- The Middle East before the war -- The young Turks urgently seek an ally -- Winston Churchill on the eve of war -- Churchill seizes Turkey's warships -- An intrigue at the Sublime Porte -- Kitchener takes command -- Kitchener's lieutenants -- Kitchener sets out to capture Islam -- India protests -- The man in the middle -- The Turkish commanders almost lose the war -- Kitchener allows Britain to attack Turkey -- On to victory at the Dardanelles -- Russia's grab for Turkey -- Defining Britain's goals in the Middle East -- At the narrows of fortune -- The warriors -- The politicians -- The light that failed -- Creating the Arab bureau -- Making promises to the Arabs -- Making promises to the European allies -- Turkey's triumph at the Tigris -- Behind enemy lines -- Kitchener's last mission -- Hussein's revolt -- The fall of the allied governments : Britain and France -- The overthrow of the Czar -- The new world -- Lloyd George's Zionism -- Toward the Balfour Declaration -- The promised land -- Jerusalem for Christmas -- The road to Damascus -- The battle for Syria -- The parting of the ways -- By the shores of Troy -- The ticking clock -- Betrayal -- The unreal world of the peace conferences -- The troubles begin, 1919-1921 -- Egypt, the winter of 1918-1919 -- Afghanistan, the spring of 1919 -- Arabia, the spring of 1919 -- Turkey, January 1920 -- Syria and Lebanon, the spring and summer of 1920 -- Eastern Palestine (Transjordan), 1920 -- Palestine : Arabs and Jews, 1920 -- Mesopotamia (Iraq), 1920 -- Persia (Iran), 1920 -- Unmasking Britain's enemies -- The Soviet challenge in the Middle East -- Moscow's goals -- A death in Bukhara -- Winston Churchill takes charge -- Churchill and the question of Palestine -- The alliances come apart -- A Greek tragedy -- The settlement of the Middle Eastern question.…”
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An ABC of Queen Victoria's empire, or, A primer of conquest, dissent and disruption by Burton, Antoinette M., 1961-

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Tigerman : a novel First American edition. by Harkaway, Nick, 1972-