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Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979–1989


Book ID
127027870
Publisher
Profile Books
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
2 MB
Category
Standards
City
London
ISBN
1846680549

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✦ Synopsis


As former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. The story has been distorted not only by Cold War propaganda but also by the myths of the nineteenth century Great Game. It moves from the high politics of the Kremlin to the lonely Russian conscripts in isolated mountain outposts. The parallels with Afghanistan today speak for themselves.
‘A superb achievement of narrative history, sensitive writing and exciting fresh research’: so wrote Simon Sebag Montefiore about Rodric Braithwaite’s bestseller Moscow 1941. But those words, and many others of praise that were given it, could equally apply to his new book.

✦ Subjects


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