BIBLIOGRAPHY
The following are books about Afghanistan by writers who have visited the country since the Soviet invasion of 1979:
Chaliand, Gérard: Report from Afghanistan (New York: Penguin, 1982).
Fullerton, John: The Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan (London: Methuen, 1984).
Gall, Sandy: Behind Russian Lines (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1983).
Martin, Mike: Afghanistan: Inside a Rebel Stronghold (Poole, England: Blandford Press, 1984).
Ryan, Nigel: A Hitch or Two in Afghanistan (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983).
Van Dyk, Jere: In Afghanistan (New York: Coward-McCann, 1983).
The standard reference book on Afghanistan is: Dupree, Louis: Afghanistan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980).
On women and children I recommend the following: Bailleau Lajoinie, Simone: Conditions de Femmes en Afghanistan (Paris: Éditions Sociales, 1980). Hunte, Pamela Anne: The Sociocultural Context of Perinatality in Afghanistan (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1984). Van Oudenhoven, Nico J. A.: Common Afghan Street Games (Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1979).
The classic travel book on the Panisher Valley and Nuristan is: Newby, Eric: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (London: Secker & War-burg, 1958).