Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan

ISBN-13: 9780198846017 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 368 str.

Associate Profess Elisabeth (Associate Professor of History

Opis

This book offers a new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, exploring the conflict both within and beyond the framework of the Cold War, and focusing on many of the different groups involved in and impacted by the war of the 1980s.

Recenzje

Leake' intensive research in archives located in Russia, the US, Pakistan, and Europe provides rich materials. Thomas Barfield, Boston University, Middle East Journal

O autorze

Elisabeth Leake is Lee E. Dirks Chair in Diplomatic History and Associate Professor of History at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She is the author of The Defiant Border: The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the Era of Decolonization, 1936-65.