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To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
@Aevann can you
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As you know the book club is back. I already read the Metamorphosis a few months ago so I'll just check my notes for the single discussion thread.
I started reading "Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89" by Rodric Braithwaite (former Bong ambassador to Russia) which is about the Soviet-Afghan war 
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Also, how easily readable is "Afgantsy"? It's an interesting subject to me, but I've found some military history books such as Richard Frank's "Downfall" pretty hard to get through
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I started to read the book yesterday so I'm still very early on it.
The first chapter is titled "The Road to Kabul" and the author covers a summary of Afghan history from the 1700s up to the 1970s (the Anglo-Afghan wars, Tsarist Russia's interests and expansion through Central Asia, the modernization attempts by the Afghan monarchy and the deals with the Soviets) but I would say it's pretty straightforward despite not being pop-history.
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Thanks. I'm not so
that I can only read pop history.
But the extremely dry and technical prose of some military history books is a bit intimating to me.
I'll give this a read later this year
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Oh I get that, that's why I picked the book written by a British diplomat which will be more politically oriented over the dry textbook written by the Russian military as a case study. Books by Military historians are famous for being extremely dry.
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