Holy war, unholy victory : eyewitness to the CIA's secret war in Afghanistan
- Title
- Holy war, unholy victory : eyewitness to the CIA's secret war in Afghanistan / Kurt Lohbeck ; foreword by Dan Rather.
- Published by
- Washington, D.C. : Regnery Gateway, ©1993.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- Describes the Soviet-Afghan War from the eyes of the Afghans who fought it.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Contents
- Weaving a tangled web -- In the eyes of the beholders -- Past is prologue -- Lack of vigilance -- Infiltration -- Reaction -- Peace through strength -- East is east -- Citizen soilders -- Sweet revenge -- David vs. Goliath -- Helping hands: overt and covert -- Messengers confusing the message -- Half Kipling's India, half Bogart's Casablanca -- Lord save us from our friends -- Spies, lies, and videotapes -- Street gangs and armies -- Wars and rumors of wars -- Into the jaws of the enemy -- We deceive ourselves -- Extremely intolerant -- Goliath begins to fall -- Money is the root of all evil -- Chaos and confusion -- The messengers kill each other -- Brothers in blood -- Retreat from Jalalabad -- The war on drugs -- Whodunit -- History begins to repeat itself -- Goliath goes down.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.