From John Pike, who used to work at the Federation of American
Scientists.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/afghanistan/cs-invasion.htm
Anyone familiar with this book? http://www.rus.org/afgan/afglit.htm
* Anwar, Raja. THE TRAGEDY OF AFGHANISTAN (A First-hand Account) Verso,
London, 1988. 24x16cm, black cl gilt, xviii + 286pp, notes, index. 1st ed. A
fine copy in sl stained dw. Modern historical study; 'Never before has the
argument so clearly been put that it was the adventurism and mismanagement
of the PDPA leaders Taraki and Amin, not some Soviet strategic plan, that
drew the Soviet forces into Kabul..Anwar's book takes us inside the
leadership of the Afghan revolution in a way that no previous account has
done. (from the Introduction by Fred Halliday of LSE)
Michael Pugliese
