AFGANTSY: the Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89.
Pp. xiv+418(last blank), 16 plates (8 coloured), 4 full page maps, annexes, notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; navy boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of leaves slightly foxed; Profile Books, London, 2011. First edition. *'In December 1979 Soviet troops poured into Afghanistan and special forces seized key objectives in Kabul, storming the president's palace and killing him. The intentions of the Soviet government were modest: they aimed to secure the main towns and roads, stabilise the government, train up the Afghan army and police, and withdraw within six months or a year. Instead they found themselves in a bloody war, from which it took them nine years and fifty-two days to extricate themselves' [wrapper blurb]. Item #178680
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