Even in an age of Internet search engines, a well-designed bibliography with a good index is still an invaluable tool for any scholar or student. This new bibliography on Afghanistan, with slightly more than 5,000 citations, would appear to be just such a necessary tool, which reviewers invariably describe as “recommended for any library.” Alas, despite its length, the bibliography has so many significant omissions of key works that one is temped to say it misses the forest by focusing on the bushes and forgetting the trees. The bulk (and best part) of the work is the bushes: citations of articles and book chapters, including those in Russian, that are little known and hard to fine. What is impossible to ignore is that so many major books are missing on a country for which the number of scholarly monographs is not large and for which a search through a good...

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