My Life With the Taliban by Abdul Salam Zaeef

My Life With the Taliban

by Abdul Salam Zaeef

Edited by Alex van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn

Scribe Publications, 2010, [First Edition], hardcover, dustjacket, ISBN 9781921640513

Near Fine Condition, ex-library with cancelled stamp to front flyleaf and security sticker to back flyleaf, protected and labeled dustjacket.

'This is the autobiography of Abdul Salam Zaeef, a senior former member of the Taliban.  His memoirs, translated from Pashto,are more than just the story of his extraordinary life: they offer a challenging counter-narrative to the standard accounts of Afganistan since 1979.

My Life with the Taliban offers a personal and privileged insight into the rural Pashtun village communities that are the Taliban's bedrock and helps to explain what drives men like Zaeef to take up arms against the foreigners who are foolish enough to invade their homeland.'