In December 1979, Soviet troops entered Afghanistan to support the friendly regime and leave in six months or a year, but the good intentions of the USSR turned into a long war, which had catastrophic consequences not only for Afghanistan, but also for the Soviet Union itself and the whole world.
Sir Rodrika Breveta’s sober and exact book is the best of the descriptions of the 1979-1989 campaign published in English. The war appears here not by villainy, but a tragedy, not the result of a conspiracy, but a fatal combination of circumstances.
However, this book is not so much about the war in Afghanistan, which became the battlefield for enemy ideologies as about people in the war: soldiers and civilians, men and women.
Author
Braitwate Rodrik
Editor
Gornostaev Barbara
Translator
Shirikov Anton
Publisher
Corpus, 2013
Series
Historia
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