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Title: The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan by Artem Borovik, Artyom Borovik ISBN: 0-8021-3775-X Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 10 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.1 (20 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A reference tool for coming conflict?
Comment: I purchased this book a few years ago and read it at the time. Then after the events of 09.11.01, i had to pull it back out and give it another read. This work shows how a war in Afghanistan was fought in the 1980's. It shows the fears and fraility of soldiers at the fore frontof a war without front lines. It gives graphic accounts of the difficulties found in fighting the Afghanis. It is a book the leaders of the world who will be deciding on whether to put ground troops into Afghanistan should take heed of and take copious notes.
Mr. Borovik does the fighting men of the then Soviet Army a proud service by showing the war as it was, not as the Soviet propaganda portrayed it.
His insights are invaluable to todays fighting men and women who may be going into harms way in the near future.
Rating: 4
Summary: Before and After Shots of War Journalism
Comment: Borovik died before getting the chance to re-edit the book, so what you'll get is a striking juxtaposition of stances toward the Russian-Afghan war. The first section of the book was written in 1987, when Borovik was working for the Soviet magazine Ogonyok. It's the sort of patriotic, sentimental journalism you'd get a 19th-c. British or 20th-c. American reporter: lots of conversations with goodhearted, homesick grunts, but very little thought about what they're doing or whether it's working.
The second part of the book describes the very messy withdrawal of the Soviet Army from Afghanistan. It was written only two years later, but it's a completely different style of journalism. With the Soviet verities crumbling, Borovik can describe the chaos and folly of an Imperial war gone wrong. His account of the Soviet convoys trying to get through the Salang Pass without being ambushed is a weirdly lyrical, beautiful description of military failure as high drama.
This isn't an account of the war, nor a carefully-crafted essay on war journalism. It's a collection of articles by a very good journalist describing the collapse of his country, as refracted in the latter stages of the disastrous Soviet Afghan adventure.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very easy to read, and strikingly similiar to Vietnam War
Comment: Very interesting book, it was amazing how similiar the experience sounded to America in Vietnam.
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Title: Afghanistan: A Russian Soldier's Story by Vladislav Tamarov ISBN: 1580084168 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Afghan Guerrilla Warfare: In the Words of the Mujahideen Fighters by Ali Ahmad Jalali, Lester W. Grau, John E. Rhodes ISBN: 0760313229 Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost by Russia (Federation) Generalnyi Shtab, Lester W. Grau, Michael A. Gress, Russian General Staff, Theodore C. Mataxis ISBN: 070061186X Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya by Anna Politkovskaia, John Crowfoot, Anna Politovskaya, Anna Politkovskaya ISBN: 1860468977 Publisher: Harvill Pr Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982 by M. Hassan Kakar ISBN: 0520208935 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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