Bibliograph

The Soviet-Afghan War, rare photographs from wartime archives, Anthony Tucker-Jones

Type

Label

The Soviet-Afghan War, rare photographs from wartime archives, Anthony Tucker-Jones

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Soviet-Afghan War

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Anthony Tucker-Jones

Series statement

Images of war

Sub title

rare photographs from wartime archives

Summary

This photographic history of the Soviet-Afghan War of 1979 to 1989 gives a fascinating insight into a grim conflict that prefigured the American-led campaign in that country. In an unequal struggle, the mujahedeen resisted for ten years, then triumphed over Moscow. For the Soviet Union, the futile intervention has been compared to the similar humiliation suffered by the United States in Vietnam. For the Afghans the victory was just one episode in the long history of their efforts to free their territory from the interference of foreign powers. By focusing on the Soviet use of heavy weaponry, Anthony Tucker-Jones shows the imbalance at the heart of a conflict in which the mechanized, industrial might of a super power was set against lightly armed partisans who became experts in infiltration tactics and ambushes. His work is a visual record of the tactics and the equipment the Soviets used to counter the resistance and protect vulnerable convoys. It also shows what this grueling conflict was like for the Soviet soldiers, the guerrilla fighters and the Afghan population, and it puts the present war in Afghanistan in a thought-provoking historical perspective

Target audience

adult

Classification