A review by idrees2022
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

5.0

On re-reading the book after nearly 20 years, I realise that I had been unfairly critical of it in the. It is actually a really good work of reportage. Anything that it lacks in depth it makes up for in the sweep of its historical and political scope. Smart analysis which has been mostly borne out by the years since.