The Soviet-Afghan War: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives - Brossura

Tucker-Jones, Anthony

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1848845782 ISBN 13: 9781848845787

Casa editrice: Pen & Sword, 2013

Riassunto

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 mujahedeen 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 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 grueling 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.

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L'autore:

After a career in the intelligence community, Anthony Tucker-Jones became a freelance defence consultant and a prolific writer on intelligence, terrorism and military affairs. His most recent books are The Kalashnikov in Combat and Armoured Warfare in the Korean War.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Pen & Sword
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1848845782
• ISBN 13: 9781848845787
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 134