Amy Hertz, The Huffington Post: With the surge in Afghanistan expected to begin this week, we thought it was time to take a look at the long view of Afghanistan, from the perspective of the books written about the struggle of two major powers in Central Asia. We'll bring you a round up of book reviews and reportage from The New York Review of Books in two parts: first we'll look back at the Soviet war, then to the current American action. Here's our trip backwards through the archives of The New York Review of Books: From the article "Afghanistan: The Imperial Dream", by Firuz Kazemzadeh, F