Phil Halton has worked around the globe as a soldier and security consultant, including in Afghanistan. He is the author of the novel This Shall Be a House of Peace. He lives in Toronto.

• Chapter One – 1919Chapter Two – Early ReformsChapter Three – Rebellion on All SidesChapter Four – The Water Carrier’s BoyChapter Five – The Shadow of GodChapter Six – The Boy KingChapter Seven – PashtunistanChapter Eight – The Strong Hand of the Prime MinisterChapter Nine – The Last AmirChapter Ten – An Amir by Any Other NameChapter Eleven – Bloody AprilChapter Twelve – A Godless and Alien RegimeChapter Thirteen – With Neither the Soviets nor GodChapter Fourteen – The StudentsChapter Fifteen – The Commander of the FaithfulChapter Sixteen – Guilt by AssociationChapter Seventeen – Infinite JusticeChapter Eighteen – Opportunity LostChapter Nineteen – The Neo-TalibanChapter Twenty – Left to Stand AloneChapter Twenty-One – Fraying at the EdgesChapter Twenty-Two - Faint Hope for the FutureConclusionGlossarySource NotesSelected BibliographyIndex

Blood Washing Blood is a good overview of the costly cycle of errors over the last 100 years ... celebrating grassroots, women-led responses to war-weariness that signal the potential for reconciliatory change.