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Berntsen, Gary, and Ralph Pezzullo. Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA’s Key Field Commander. New York: Crown, 2005

Bhutto, Benazir. Daughter of the East: An Autobiography (revised). London: Pocket Books, 2008

Bhutto, Benazir. Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West. New York: Harper, 2008

Bishop, Patrick. 3 Para. London: HarperPress, 2007

Bissonnette, Matt, and Kevin Maurer. No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden. New York: Dutton, 2012

Blehm, Eric. The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan. New York: Harper, 2010

Braithwaite, Rodric. Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979–89. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011

Bush, George W. Decision Points. New York: Crown, 2010

Chandrasekaran, Rajiv. Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan. New York: Knopf, 2012

Chayes, Sarah. Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security. New York: W.W. Norton, 2015

Coll, Steve. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. New York: Penguin Press, 2004

Cowper-Coles, Sherard. Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West’s Afghanistan Campaign. London: HarperPress, 2011

Dalrymple, William. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan. London: Bloomsbury, 2013

Docherty, Leo. Desert of Death: A Soldier’s Journey from Iraq to Afghanistan. London: Faber & Faber, 2007

Fergusson, James. A Million Bullets: The Real Story of the British Army in Afghanistan. London: Bantam, 2008

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Gall, Carlotta. The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001–2014. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014

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Grey, Stephen. Operation Snake Bite. London: Penguin, 2009

Haqqani, Husain. Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005

Haqqani, Husain. Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding. New York: PublicAffairs, 2013

Hussein, Zahid. The Scorpion’s Tail. New York: Free, 2010

Kilcullen, David. Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla. London: Hurst, 2013

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Ledwidge, Frank. Investment in Blood: The Real Cost of Britain’s Afghan War. n.p.: Yale UP, 2013

Levy, Adrian, and Cathy Scott-Clark. Deception. London: Atlantic Books, 2007

Levy, Adrian, and Cathy Scott-Clark. The Siege. London: Penguin, 2013

Loyn, David. Butcher and Bolt. London: Hutchinson, 2008

McDermott, Terry, and Josh Meyer. The Hunt for KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. New York: Little, Brown, 2012

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