Afghanistan. The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982, Paperback - Mohammed Kakar

Describes the events surrounding the Soviet invasion in 1979 and the encounter between the military superpower and the poorly armed Afghans.

This book offers a new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, exploring the conflict both within and beyond the framework of the Col...

This book is the first detailed, illustrated guide to the military uniforms, civilian clothing, and equipment worn and used by Soviet soldiers and ...

Whispers of War: An Afghan Freedom Fighter's Account of the Soviet Invasion is the real-life tale of a young political leader, Masood Khalili. Son ...

Storm-333 was the opening move in the Soviet-Afghan War, a special-forces mission to seize Kabul and assassinate Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin. At ...

Reducere. Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan To what extent did America's best int...

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In the First Anglo-Afghan War of 1839 to 1842, considered the most infamous of all colonial wars, only Dr. Brydon survived out of the 13, 000-to-20...

Reducere. The story of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is well known: the expansionist Communists overwhelmed a poor country as a means of reaching a wa...

In this revised and updated edition new accounts have been included of the ways in which the islanders resisted occupation and did not - hitherto u...

Reducere. "Fascinating....A highly readable history of the conflict." --New York Times Book Review In The Great Gamble, a groundbreaking account of the Sovie...

In 1839, forces of the British East India Company crossed the Indus to invade Afghanistan on the pretext of reinstating a former king, Shah Soojah,...

Reducere. Originally printed in very limited numbers in 1995, this book is a companion piece to "The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Af...

Reducere. The edited collection is the first attempt to take a more coherent look at the Russian perception of the Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact occupati...

Reducere. DescriptionThe story of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is well known: the expansionist Communists overwhelmed a poor country as a means of re...

DescriptionFormerly known as the 'Switzerland of the Middle East', an island of economic stability and social progress, Lebanon was shattered by a ...

Reducere. Afghan Heat is a fast paced story of an SAS operative on operations from SAS selection through to a tour on the battlefields of Afghanistan. The bo...

Reducere. Until his death in 2000, Artyom Borovik was considered one of the preeminent journalists in Russia. With The Hidden War he provided the world its f...

Reducere. The War in Afghanistan (1979-1989) has been called "the Soviet Union's Vietnam War, " a conflict that pitted Soviet regulars against a relentless, ...

Reducere. Lucrarea se inscrie in dimensiunea istorico-hermeneutica, semnificativa in mod special pentru istoria timpului prezent, de a face din memorie o for...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Lucrarea se inscrie in dimensiunea istorico-hermeneutica, semnificativa in mod special pentru istoria timpului prezent, de a face din memorie o for...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Angela PierceThe Crocheting could be the simplest way of creating fabric that ever existed in the world. Since all you need...

Publisher: Oliver Arts and Open PressAuthor(s): Michael RatnerIllustration(s): 98 b/w photosNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 1...

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The story of NATO's disastrous occupation of Afghanistan, and how it repeated the mistakes of the Soviet occupation which preceded itPublisher: Ver...

Reducere. For over 2, 500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads for armies and has witnessed history-shaping clashe...

Reducere. Do you wonder what we did with all the US money pumped into Afghanistan? Or...how it was all spent? This is the inside story of the United States' ...

Reducere. In this masterful treatise of Sufi spirituality and metaphysics, Shaykh Mohamed Faouzi al-Karkari maps out the mystical journey to God as an initia...

A classic revolutionary work on the Christian and biblical case for the full acceptance of LGBTQ community into the church by two leading pioneers ...

Reducere. The small town of Hamlein is peaceful and...well, pretty boring. Nothing exciting ever happens. That is, until the day an alien spaceship lands in ...

Two more warm and funny stories - with a touch of magic - about Luma and her cheeky pet dragon.Publisher: Welbeck Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Leah M...

Two warm and funny stories - with a touch of magic - about Luma and her cheeky pet dragon.Publisher: Welbeck Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Leah Mohamm...

Reducere. A compelling and informed observation of the truth of Canada's war, from a dedicated Canadian doctor Unusually for a Canadian Forces physician, Ray...

The first authoritative history of American's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar-practitioners. The American war in Afghanistan, whi...

Losing Afghanistan features twenty-one critical essays by analysts, politicians, soldiers, commentators and practitioners - interspersed with power...

Publisher: Capstone Global Library LtdAuthor(s): Brandon TerrellNumber of pages: 40Collection: Far Out Fairy TalesPublication date: 2022Dimensions:...

This revisionary account of the Oromo people and the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia transforms our perception of the country's development, rebuttin...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bill WarnerMohammed's life is an epic story. He was an orphan who rose from poverty to become the first ruler of all of Ara...

Reducere. 2, 300 years ago an unbeaten army of the West invaded the homeland of a fierce Eastern tribal foe. This is one soldier's story . . . The bestsellin...

The Hazaras, numbering some 2.5 million, have for centuries faced persecution from Afghanistan's majority Sunni population -- politically, socially...

Reducere. DescriptionWho should read this book? Everyone who wants to increase their weightlifting totals Learn how to write weightlifting training programs ...

Reducere. In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to tra...

Reducere. A dazzling collection of stories, The Prophet of Zongo Street takes readers to a world that seamlessly blends African folklore and myths with moder...