Soldiers of God: With the Mujahidin in AfghanistanHoughton Mifflin, 1990 - 258 sider In the great tradition of Rudyard Kipling and T.E. Lawrence, Robert Kaplan follows the guerrillas on mule and on foot, in crude native garb and eating native food, across mountain and land-mined desert, deep in an ancient, alien world's struggle to keep the modern world at bay. |
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PROLOGUE Walking Through a Minefield | 1 |
THREE Going up Khyber | 79 |
EPILOGUE Something I Only Imagined | 226 |
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Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
Abdul Haq Afghan Afghanistan Afridis American army asked base began bomb border British brother called carried close commander Communist cross driver East eyes face feet felt fighting forced foreign friends fundamentalists going ground guerrillas guns Gunston hands Haq's head Hekmatyar Herat hundred inside Islamic Jalalabad journalists Kabul Kandahar Khalis Khan killed king knew land later leader lived looked Massoud military million mines Mohammed months mountains mujahidin never NIFA night Northwest Frontier once Pakistan party Pass Pathans Persian Peshawar political Qadir Quetta refugees regime relief reported resistance road Russians seemed Shah Shuster side soldiers Soviet story taken talk thought thousand told took traveling troops turned United Valley village Wakhil walking walls wanted weeks West Western women