Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was a 10-year war fought between the Soviet Army and rebels in Afghanistan. The war is generally held to have started December 24, 1979. Soviet troops ultimately withdrew from the area between May 15, 1988 and February 2, 1989. The Soviet Union officially announced that all of its troops had left Afghanistan on February 15, 1989.

Further reading

Non-fiction

• Kurt Lohbeck, introduction by Dan Rather, Holy War, Unholy Victory: Eyewitness to the Cia's Secret War in Afghanistan, Regnery Publishing (November, 1993), hardcover, ISBN 0895264994
• Stephanie Courtios, Le livre noir du Communisme, hardcover, ISBN 0674076087
• George Crile, Charlie Wilson's War: the extraordinary story of the largest covert operation in history, Atlantic Monthly Press 2003, ISBN 0871138514
• Robert D. Kaplan, Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan, ISBN 1400030250
• Lester W. Grau, The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Super Power Fought and Lost, ISBN 070061186X

Fiction

Vladimir Rybakov. The Afghans. Infinity Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0-7414-2296-4

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