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The Soviet-Afghan War. Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

Door Anthony Tucker-Jones

Categorie
Geschiedenis Azië
Boeknummer
#347705-BA11
Titel
The Soviet-Afghan War. Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Auteur
Tucker-Jones, Anthony
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Pen & Sword Books Limited
Jaar van uitgave
2012
ISBN10
1848845782
ISBN13
9781848845787
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with numerous b/w photogrpahs, small 4to.
Samenvatting

This photographic history of the Soviet-Afghan War of 1979 to 1989 gives a fascinating insight into a grim conflict that prefigured the American-led campaign in that country. In an unequal struggle the mujahideen resisted for ten years, then triumphed over Moscow. For the Soviet Union the futile intervention has been compared to the similar humiliation suffered by the United States in Vietnam. For the Afghans the victory was just one episode in the long history of their efforts to free their territory from the interference of foreign powers. By focusing on the Soviet use of heavy weaponry, Anthony Tucker-Jones shows the imbalance at the heart of a conflict in which the mechanized, industrial might of a super power was set against lightly armed partisans who became experts in infiltration... (Lees verder) tactics and ambushes. His work is a visual record of the tactics and the equipment the Soviets used to counter the resistance and protect vulnerable convoys. It also shows what this gruelling conflict was like for the Soviet soldiers, the guerrilla fighters and the Afghan population, and it puts the present war in Afghanistan in a thought-provoking historical perspective.
Pagina's
134
Conditie
Nieuw
Prijs
€ 8,00

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