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

by Elisabeth Leake

Book Overview

A new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - an invasion whose consequences are still felt in Afghanistan and across the wider world

On 24 December 1979, Soviet armed forces entered Afghanistan, beginning an occupation that would last almost a decade and creating a political crisis that shook the world. To many observers, the Soviet invasion showed the lengths to which one of the world's superpowers would go...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198846010
• ISBN13: 9780198846017
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 8.7"