Afghanistan: A Bibliography Available to Purchase

In these days when electronic databases seem increasingly to be dominating the field of bibliography, it is encouraging to see that a major printed bibliography can still be published. This one appears in the long established Handbuch der Orientalistik, other volumes of which have dealt with historical and linguistic aspects of the Far East. Its foreword is the most emotively written that I have ever seen in a reference book, denouncing the manner in which Western powers have taken an interest in Afghanistan only when it suited them.

Unfortunately, it does not, as might be expected, go on to discuss...