BATTLE FOR AFGHANISTAN (Pbk)

This is the inside story of how the Mujahideen humiliated the armed might of the Soviet Union in the mountains of Afghanistan, backed and armed by Pakistan and the United States. Brigadier Mohammed Yousaf was head of the Afghan Bureau of Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence during the time of the conflict and as such was effectively the Mujahideen's Commander-in-Chief. This superlative book shows the organisation, tactics and operations of the Mujahideen during the conflict and the events that led to the conditions that exist there today. It describes in lurid detail the training they received and the ambushes, assassinations, raids and rocket attacks that became the hallmark of Afghanistan's war against the Soviet bear.